Colloque – People, Texts and Artefacts: Cultural Transmission in the Norman Worlds of the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries.

Emmanuel College, Cambridge

23-25 March 2014

The conference can be booked from 17 January 2014 (until 15 March 2014) through the University of Cambridge conference e-sales facility and then look for ‘Conferences’ and ‘History’.

For six graduate students’ bursaries (a reduction of £50), please contact Elisabeth van Houts (emcv2@cam.ac.uk)

Sunday 23 March

12.00-2.00pm : Registration and informal lunch – Queens’ building, Harrods Room

2.00pm : Welcome by Professor Elisabeth van Houts (Cambridge) – Queens’ Building, Lecture Theatre

2.15-3.45 Session 1

David Abulafia (Cambridge) – The transformation of the Norman kingdom of Sicily

Edoardo d’Angelo (Naples) – A Norman school in the Holy Land?

3.45-4.15 Tea/coffee

4.15-5.45 Session 2

Paul Oldfield (Manchester) – The Bari charter of privileges of 1132: articulating the culture of a new Norman monarchy

Alice Taylor (King’s College, London) – Homage in Norman law and chronicles

7.00 : Dinner

Monday 24 March

9.30-11.00 Session 3

Tom Licence (East Anglia) – Historical writing at St. Vincent’s, Metz and its influence in the Anglo-Norman world

Mario Zecchino (Bologna) – Weights and measures in the Norman- Swabian world

11.00-11.30 : Tea/coffee

11.30-1.00 : Session 4

Giuseppe Mastrominico (Ariano Irpino) – Law and literature in the Courts of Love

Lindy Grant (Reading) – Angevin princesses as agents of cultural transmission

1.00-2.30 : Lunch

2.30-4.00 Session 5

Anna Laura Trombetti (Bologna) – Attività legislativa di Guglielmo I e di Guglielmo II

Robert Liddiard (East Anglia) – The Landscapes and the Material Culture of the Anglo-Norman Empire: Chronology and Cultural Transmission

4.00-4.30 : Tea/coffee

4.30 : Exhibition Emmanuel College Library Medieval Manuscripts

7.00 : Conference Dinner

Tuesday 25 March

9.00-10.30 Session 6

Graham Loud (Leeds) – The medieval archives of the abbey of S.Trinità, Cava

Teofilo de Angelis (University of Cassino-Basso Lazio) – The manuscript tradition of Petro of Eboli’s De balneis Puteolanis: recensio and stemma codicum

10.30-11.00 : Tea/coffee

11.00-11.45 : Session 7

Marie-Agnès Avenel (Caen) – Écrire la conquête: une comparaison des récits de Guillaume de Poitiers et Geoffrey Malaterra

11.45-12.15 Session 8

David Bates (East Anglia/Cambridge) – Concluding remarks

Editors’ information about plans for publication

12.30 : departure

Source de l’information : Medieval Art Research