Dr Giles E. M. Gasper (Durham University)

g.e.m.gasper@durham.ac.uk

Charlie Rozier (Durham University)

c.c.rozier@durham.ac.uk

Durham University Department of History

43 North Bailey

Durham, DH1 3EX

Daniel Roach (University of Exeter)

dr229@ex.ac.uk

Exeter University Department of History

Amory Building

Rennes Drive

Exeter, EX4 4RJ

10h00 : Arrivals, registration and check-in.

11h30-12h00 : Prof. Christopher Holdsworth – Welcome Lecture: ‘Marjorie Chibnall: an Appreciation’

12h00-13h00 : Lunch

Erik Kwakkel – Orderic’s Hand and the development of Anglo-Norman gothic

Jenny Weston – Following the Master’s Lead: A New Orderic Vitalis Manuscript in Perspective

Charlie Rozier – The study of History at Saint-Évroul and the place of the Historia Ecclesiastica within this

Thomas Roche – Reading Orderic Vitalis with Charters in Mind

Véronique Gazeau – Orderic Vitalis and the Cults of Saints

Giles E. M. Gasper – Orderic Vitalis and Historical Theology

17h30-19h00 : Keynote Lecture: Prof. Elisabeth van Houts (Cambridge University) – Orderic Vitalis: the Man and the Historian

19h30 : Drinks Reception – Tunstall Gallery, Durham Castle.

20h00 : Conference Dinner – Senate Suite, Durham Castle.

Kate Hammond – Orderic Vitalis and family, politics and conflict

Dan Roach – In the interests of the church of Ouche’: St. Evroul and Southern Italy in the Historia ecclesiastica

Bill Aird – The judgement of God…waits till the day when you must render account of your stewardship: Orderic’s secular rulers, and representations of personality and power in the Historia Ecclesiastica

Kathleen Thompson – Orderic and the Tironensians

Elisabeth Mégier – Jesus Christ, a protagonist of AngloNorman history? History and theology in Orderic Vitalis Historia Ecclesiastica

Daniel Gerrard – Orderic’s Demons

12h30-13h30 : Lunch

Rick Barton – Orderic Vitalis and Violence

Estelle Ingrand-Varenne and Vincent Debiais – Between Historia and poesis: Funerary Inscriptions in the Historia Ecclesiastica

Melissa Sartore – To outlaw, to exile, and to imprison: social, political, and legal practices according to Orderic Vitalis

Peter Frankopan – Orderic and Byzantium

Benjamin Pohl – Mentality and Memory in the Works of Orderic Vitalis

Chris Lewis – Orderic’s England

18h00 : Wine reception followed by dinner in St John’s College  – Dining Hall (from 19:00), with cash bar available for the rest of the evening.

Emily Winkler – The Invasion Narratives of Orderic and his Contemporaries

Fanny Madeline – Orderic Vitalis and the Arts of War

Joanna Huntington – Gender in Orderic Vitalis

Tom O’Donnell – Meanders, Loops, and Dead Ends: Form and Interpretation in Orderic Vitalis

Mark Faulkner – Orderic Vitalis and (the) English

Emily Albu – Spiritual joy and worldly woe: The tone of the Historia Ecclesiastica

12h30-13h30 : Lunch

Sigbjørn Olsen Sønnesyn – The Moral of the Story: Monastic Edification in Orderic’s Historia ecclesiastica

Xavier Storelli – Temporality, Death and Other World in Orderic’s Historia Ecclesiastica

James Clark – Orderic’s Reception in the Later Middle Ages

15h00 : Daniel Roach and Charlie Rozier – Closing Remarks and Future Directions

15h30 : Departures