In this seminar, Francis Leneghan (University of Oxford) unravelled the web of Scandinavian royal legends structuring the Old English epic, which were known to the work's original audience, but are obscure and confusing for modern audiences. The seminar explained Beowulf as a dynastic drama centred on the fortunes of the royal houses of the Scyldings, Scylfings and Hrethlings, with the Geatish hero's adventures providing the link between the three. A new way of appreciating the role of the monsters as portents of dynastic and national crises, and Beowulf as a created a fictionalized monster-slaying hero dramatizing specific moments of dynastic crisis. Organised by Mercedes Salvador-Bello at the University of Seville.

Hosted by the research group in Interdisciplinary Medieval Studies at the Universitat Jaume I in Castellón, the International Conference Traductio et Traditio Mediaevales: Science, Knowledge and Ideology delved into translation, rewriting and compilation as tools for knowledge transmission in the Middle Ages, in disciplines such as Medicine, Scholasticism, and Oratory, with the pervasive presence of Graeco-Latin authorities in them. Keynote speakers: Carlos Alvar (Université de Genève), Lluís Cifuentes (Universitat de Barcelona) and Isabel de la Cruz (Universidad de Alcalá). Organised by María José Esteve Ramos, among others.