Changing minds around 600

Tuesday 21 February 2012, 5.30PM

Speaker: Professor Guy Halsall, Department of History

York Medieval Seminar

Professor Guy Halsall joined the department of history in January 2003. His doctoral research, carried out at York, was on the archaeology and history of the Merovingian region of Metz (north-eastern France and southern Germany), c.350-c.750. This was published as a monograph, Settlement and Social Organization: The Merovingian region of Metz (Cambridge, 1995). The research for that project fuelled his interest in the study of early medieval cemeteries and led to a number of articles examining the ways in which the evidence of funerary archaeology could be used to drive a new social history of the post-Roman world, and to a critical offensive against the interpretation of particular burial styles as representing the graves of migrating Germanic barbarians.

Location: Room K/133, King's Manor

Admission: Admission is free and open to all

Telephone: 01904 324466