The 46th Battle Conference on Anglo-Norman Studies will be hosted by the School of Advanced Study, University of London. It will take place at Senate House (Bloomsbury), with the Allen Brown Memorial Lecture and Reception with a manuscript display at Lambeth Palace Library. There will also be a tour of St Barts.

Registration is available via the following link: https://ies.sas.ac.uk/events/battle-conference

The speakers will be:

Dr Jenny Benham (Cardiff), ‘Spies and Espionage in the Medieval World’

Dr Katy Dutton (Leeds), ‘The Cistercian abbey of Kirkstead, Lincolnshire: rethinking a twelfth-century foundation and its thirteenth-century cartulary’

Dr Erin Goers (UCL), ‘Brotherhood and brother-hatred: 1066 in the Old Norse sagas’

Dr Chris Lewis (IHR), ‘The significance of Exon Domesday’ (The Des Seal Memorial Lecture)

Prof. Tom Licence (UEA), ‘Richard the Lionheart’

Prof. Amy Livingstone (Lincoln), ‘Ermengarde and her relationship with male clergy or on what texts might have influenced or guided her piety’ (The Allen Brown Memorial Lecture)

Prof. Alma Santosuosso (Wilfrid Laurier University), ‘Abbot William of Dijon and the a-p System of Musical Notation in Medieval Normandy’

Dr Benjamin Savill (FU-Berlin), ‘The Donation of (Pope) Constantine: Imitation, Forgery and the Death of Papyrus, 709-1205’ (The Christine Mahany Memorial Lecture)

Prof. Tom Bisson

And the Marjorie Chibnall Prize winner.

The cost of the conference is £110. This includes tea/coffee and lunch at Senate House, and a buffet at Lambeth Palace. There will be opportunities to dine as a group on 20th and 21st, but delegates will be asked to settle their bills separately. More information will be available nearer the time.

Generous student bursaries are available to support the costs of attending the conference, including travel and accommodation. Students who would like to apply for a bursary should contact Caroline Palmer at cpalmer@boydell.co.uk.

Accommodation is not provided, but a wide range of accommodation is available in the Bloomsbury area. For those staying further afield, Senate House is a short walk from Russell Square, Goodge Street, Tottenham Court Road or Euston Square tube stations.

Programme :

Locations: Lambeth Palace for the Allen Brown Memorial Lecture and Reception; Senate House for the remainder of the conference.

19 July (Wednesday) Lambeth Palace

3.30-4.30 Arrival and Registration

3.30-5.00 Manuscript display

5.00 Welcome and opening remarks by the director

5.05-6.00 The Allen Brown Memorial Lecture

Professor Amy Livingstone (Lincoln University)

Ermengarde and her relationship with male clergy or on what texts might have influenced or guided her piety [tbc]

6.00-7.30 Reception (includes wine, soft drinks and substantial nibbles)

20 July (Thursday) Senate House

10-11.15 Dr Erin Goers (University College London)

Brotherhood and brother-hatred: 1066 in the Old Norse sagas

11.15-11.45 Tea/Coffee break

11.45-1pm Marjorie Chibnall Prize Winner
Lili Scott Lintott (St Andrews)

Grief in the Histoire de Gullaume le Maréchal

1-2 Lunch

2-3.30 Poster Session and Tea/Coffee Break

3.30-4.45 Des Seal Memorial Lecture
Dr Chris Lewis (Institute of Historical Research)

The significance of Exon Domesday

Followed by

Liesbeth van Houts in conversation with Thomas N. Bisson

7.30 Dinner (optional): details to be confirmed

21 July (Friday) Senate House

10-11.15 Christine Mahany Memorial Lecture
Dr Benjamin Savill (FU-Berlin)

The Donation of (Pope) Constantine: Imitation, Forgery and the Death of Papyrus, 709-1205

11.15-11.45 Tea/Coffee break

11.45-1pm Dr Katy Dutton (University of Leeds)

The Cistercian abbey of Kirkstead, Lincolnshire: rethinking a twelfth-century foundation and its thirteenth-century cartulary

1-2 Lunch

2-3.15 Prof. Alma Santosuosso (Wilfrid Laurier University)

Abbot William of Dijon and the a-p System of Musical Notation in Medieval Normandy

3.30 depart for tour of St Bart’s, Smithfield.

7.30 Dinner (optional):  details to be confirmed

22 July (Saturday) Senate House

10-11.15 Prof. Tom Licence (University of East Anglia), ‘Richard the Lionheart’

11.15-11.45 Tea/Coffee break

11.45-1pm Dr Jenny Benham (Cardiff University), ‘Spies and Espionage in the Medieval World’

1.00 pm: End of conference

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