Programme : 

10h00 : Doors open – Registration – 10.15 Coffee – 10.35 Peter Mack’s Welcome
10h40 : David Crouch (Professor of Medieval History, University of Hull) – A Facsimile of the Battlefield? What Was at Issue in the Mêlée Tournament, 1160-1260?
11h30 : Tobias Capwell (Curator of Arms and Armour, the Wallace Collection) – Violence and Elegance. Changing Priorities in the Joust, c.1200-1625
12h20 : Noel Fallows (Professor of Spanish, University of Georgia)  – From Sport to Spectacle in Renaissance Iberia: Jousting, the Game of Canes, and Bull-Running

13h10 : Lunch

14h10 : Iain Fenlon (Professor of Music. Fellow, King’s College, Cambridge)  – Martial Monteverdi
15h00 : Helen Watanabe O’Kelly (Professor of German. Fellow, Exeter College, Oxford) – The Invention of Tradition? August the Strong and his Historicising Tournaments
15h50 : Tea
16h20 : Sydney Anglo (Emeritus Professor: University of Wales) –  The History of the History of Tournaments

17h10 : Reception and Close