Cambridge, Lucy Cavendish College
Friday 17 July pm – Tuesday 21 July am

Programme :

Friday 17 July 2015

2:00pm-4:00pm Registration at Lucy Cavendish College

Tea/Coffee
5:00pm Allen Brown Memorial Lecture – John Hudson (University of St Andrews) – The Articles of the Barons and the drafting of Magna Carta
Emmanuel College, Queen’s lecture theatre
6:00pm Reception Emmanuel College, Old Library or Garden
7:30pm Dinner

Saturday 18 July

9:30am Susan Raich (Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge) – Wreck of the sea in law and practice in eleventh- and twelfth-century England
11:00am Tea/Coffee

11:15am Jean-François Nieus (University of Namur) – The equestrian seal: an Anglo-Norman success story
12:45pm Lunch

2:00pm Jonathan Paletta (Christ College, Cambridge) – English towns and urban society after the Norman Conquest
3:30pm Tea/Coffee
4:00pm Cambridge medieval manuscripts outing [provisional]
7:30pm Conference Dinner

Sunday 19 July 2015

9:30am Anna Sapir Abulafia (Faculty of Theology and Religion and Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford) – Jews in the glosses of a late twelfth-century Anglo-Norman Gratian manuscript
11:00am Tea/Coffee

11:15am Miri Rubin (University of Queen Mary, London) – Social life and religious culture in twelfth-century Norwich and Norfolk
1:45pm Lunch

2:00pm Hugh Thomas (University of Miami, USA) – Turold, Wadard and Vitalis: Why are they on the Bayeux Tapestry?
3:30pm Tea/Coffee

4:30pm Magdalen Leper Chapel, 12th c. (Newmarket Road) [provisionally]

6:00pm Buffet supper at home Liesbeth van Houts and John Baker
7 Water Street Chesterton

Monday 20 July

9:30am Alan Murray (University of Leeds) – The reign of Constance as princess of Antioch, 1134-1160
11:00am Tea/Coffee

11:15am Luigi Russo (Università Europea di Roma) – Bad crusaders? The Normans of Southern Italy and the crusading movement’
1:45pm Lunch

2:00pm Elma Brenner (Wellcome Trust Library, London) – Medical practitioners in Normandy, c. 1050-c. 1270
3:30pm Tea/Coffee

4:00pm Marjorie Chibnall Essay Prize winner

7:30pm
Dinner

Tuesday 21 July

9:30am Giles Gasper (University of Durham) – Economy distorted, economy restored: creation, economy and salvation in Anglo-Norman monastic writing
11:00am Tea/Coffee
11:15am Kate Hammond (Brill, Leiden) – Monastic patronage and family disputes in eleventh and early twelfth-century Normandy

12:30pm Lunch and departure

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