From the 8th to the mid-11th century, Scandinavia, the British Isles, Ireland and the Low Countries have been considered as part of a larger North Sea World, linked by trade, culture and conquest. Such comparisons in British scholarship, however, have tended to end at the late 11th Century and the Norman Conquest of England. This conference seeks to extend beyond this traditional frontier by focussing upon the themes of conflict and rebellion in the regions of the North Sea World in the 12th and 13th centuries. The aim will be to help provide fresh perspectives on these subjects by highlighting the contrasts and similarities in conflict creation, management and resolution in different countries.
The conference is a two-day interdisciplinary conference for postgraduate and early career researchers and will be hosted by the History Subject at the University of Glasgow 9-10 April 2014.
Programme :
Wednesday 9 April 2014
10.00-11.00am – Registration, Tea and Coffee
11.00-12.30 – Keynote Address: Castles, Frontiers and the Changing Pattern of Aristocratic rebellion in Eleventh-Century Normandy – Professor Matthew Strickland (University of Glasgow)
12.30-13.30 – Lunch
13.30-15.00 – Panel 1: ‘Communities in Conflict’
Canons in Conflict. Examples from Medieval Denmark: Viborg and Ribe – Anna Minara Ciardi (University of Lund)
Seditio et amicitia. Urban rebellion and conflict resolution in the first half of the twelfth century – the case of Sint-Truiden – Ewoud Waerniers (University of Ghent)
Seeds of Sedition: Relations between medieval townspeople and their English monastic lords – Harriet Mahood (University of Reading)
15.00-15.30 – Tea and Coffee
15.30-17.00 – Panel 2: ‘Diplomacy and Tactics of Rebellion’
Feigning Friendship: Intimacy as an Diplomatic Instrument under King Hákon IV Hákonsson – Ian Peter Grohse (University of Trondheim)
Conflict after Rebellion, the Earldom of Ross from 1215-1266, – David Cochrane-Yu, (University of Glasgow)
Cain and Abel in the North: Conflict between Royal Brothers in 12th and 13th-century Norway – Edward Carlsson Browne (University of Aberdeen)
17.00 – Wine Reception hosted by the Glasgow Centre for War Studies
18.30 – Conference Dinner
Thursday 10 April 2014
10.00-10.30am – Tea and Coffee
10.30-12.00 – Panel 3: ‘Borders and Charters’
Conflicts over land in the Okeover Cartulary – family, friends or foes? – Peter Watson (Kellogg College, University of Oxford)
From rebel safe haven to loyal province: A historiographical analysis of the Värmland example – Peter Olausson (Karlstad Universitet)
Unreliable Lords and Deceitful Heirs: Reading Conflict Through Charter Diplomatics in the post-Conquest Anglo-Scottish Border Region – Linsey Hunter (University of the Highlands and Islands)
12.00-13.00 – Lunch
13.00-14.30 – Panel 4: ‘Resolution: Means and Methods’
“A somewhat too cruel vengeance was taken for the blood of the slain”: Royal punishment of rebels, traitors and political enemies in medieval Scotland, c.1100-c.1250 – Iain A. MacInnes (University of the Highlands and Islands)
Compensation as legal conflict resolution in the 12th and 13th century North Sea World – Miriam Tveit (University of Nordland)
Dominican Diplomacy: Mendicant Mediators and Conflict Resolution in 13th-Century North-Western Europe – Johnny Grandjean Gøgsig Jakobsen (University of Copenhagen)
14.30-15.00 – Tea and Coffee
15.00-16.30 – Keynote Address: The Last Civil War in Norway and the Consolidation of the Monarchy – Professor Sverre Bagge (University of Bergen)
16.30 – Wine Reception hosted by the Centre for Scottish and Celtic Studies
Informations pratiques :
Organising Committee:
Conflict and Rebellion 2014
History
9 University Gardens
University of Glasgow
G12 8QH
Scotland
Registration form : here
Source de l’information : University of Glasgow
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