The Harlaxton Medieval Symposium 2008
Memory and Commemoration in Medieval England
This year’s Harlaxton
Medieval Symposium being convened by Caroline Barron and Clive Burgess
from
15th-18th July 2008 at Harlaxton Manor, Grantham, Lincolnshire.
This year’s symposium has two objectives: to celebrate the first twenty five years of the Harlaxton Medieval Symposium and, secondly, to explore how people and events were commemorated or memorialised in medieval England. Speakers will reflect on how research and publication in their own field has developed over the last twenty-five years with further contributions on the different forms that medieval commemoration might take, and the ways in which memory was formalised. Contributions will include papers on stained glass windows, tomb inscriptions, books of hours, poems, chantry or college foundations, chronicles, pageants and songs.
Please find attached a provisional programme and a registration form: do please forward this to any colleagues, friends and students who you feel may be interested in joining us in July. I would be grateful for the registration form and payment to be returned to me by 30 June 2008. Rooms will be allocated on a ‘first come first served’ basis and early booking is strongly encouraged.
I hope that you will be able to attend what promises to be a very interesting and stimulating conference. If you have any queries please do not hesitate to contact me at: c.steer@rhul.ac.uk
Christian Steer
Secretary of the Harlaxton Medieval Symposium
Provisional Program
| Tuesday, 15th July 2008 | |
| 1.30 | Registration and Refreshment |
| 2.30 | Welcome and Introduction: Gordon Kingsley and Caroline Barron |
| 2.45 - 3.45 | Paul Binski, Developments in the study of Medieval Art in the last 25 years |
| 3.45 | Tea |
| 4.15-6.15 |
Memory and Commemoration in Literature session John Scattergood, Materiality and memory in some Anglo-Saxon texts Mary Carruthers, Seeing and remembering: Chaucer's visionary Troilus David Griffith, English commemorative inscriptions: some literary dimensions |
| 6.30 | Dinner |
| 7.30-9.00 | Tim
Knox, Harlaxton Manor Pamela Tudor Craig, Lady Wedgwood, The Origins of the Symposium |
| 9.00 | Bar |
| Wednesday, 16th July | |
| 7.00-8.30 | Breakfast |
| 9.00-10.00 | Joel Rosenthal, Developments in the study of medieval history in the last twenty-five years |
| 10.00 | Coffee |
| 10.30-12.30 | Location
of Obits and Chantries session David Lepine, Obits in Cathedrals Jerome Bertram, The Placebo and Dirge illustrated Rob Kinsey, Hedging your bets: the Thorpe family chantries and the location of remembrance in 14th Century England Cindy Woods, Cage Chantries Meriel Connor, Fifteenth century monastic obituaries: the evidence of Christ Church Priory, Canterbury |
| 12.30 | Lunch |
| 2.00 | Expedition to Heydour church: David King to lead. |
| 3.30 | Tea |
| 4.00-6.00 | Session
on the material culture of commemoration Claire Daunton, The Living and the Dead: Norfolk Glass 1340-1540 Sally Badham, Robertsons remembered: the commemoration of an Algarkirke family of Merchants of the Staple of Calais Christian Steer and Christian Liddy, The Creation of Lineage: the Lumley Family Nick Holder, Medieval foundation stones and foundation ceremonies |
| 6.00-6.30 | Reception hosted by Maneys |
| 6.30 | Dinner |
| 7.30-9.00 |
Remembering Agincourt Nicola Coldstream, Henry V's Agincourt Pageant Peregrine Horden, The Founding of All Souls College |
| 9.00 | Bar accompanied by singers: The Agincourt carol. |
| Thursday July 17 | |
| 7.00-8.30 | Breakfast |
| 09.00-10.00 | Preparation
for trip to Haddon Hall Short talks on the medieval chapel at Haddon hall (with slides and handouts) by: Richard Marks on the glass Nigel Ramsay on the alabaster retable Mellie Naydenova-Slade on the wall paintings |
| 10.30 | Leave for Haddon Hall |
| 12.30 | Arrive
at Haddon Hall. No guided tour, but time to explore chapel, house
and eat lunch in the cafeteria. 3.0 Leave Haddon |
| 4.45 | Tea |
| 5.15-6.30 | The
Commemorative Audience Nicholas Orme, Medieval Tourism Richard Marks, Entumbid right princly: the Beauchamp Chapel at Warwick and the Politics of Interment |
| 7.00 | Reception |
| 7.30 | Conference Dinner |
| Friday 18 July | |
| 7.00-8.30 | Breakfast |
| 9.00-10.00 | Derek Pearsall, Developments in the study of Medieval Literature in the last 25 years |
| 10.00-11.15 |
Royal Commemoration Mark Ormrod, Commemoration at the 14th Century English royal court Sophie Oosterwijk, A Dance for a Dead King? Charles VI and the danse macabre mural at Les Innocents in Paris |
| 11.15 | Coffee |
| 11.45-1.00 | Aristocratic
Commemoration Jenny Ward, Who to commemorate and why? Commemoration of the Nobility in Eastern England in the fourteenth century Nigel Saul, Multiple Meanings of Remembrance |
| 1.00 | Lunch and depart |