medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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RODNEY HILTON'S
MIDDLE AGES (400 -1600)
A conference at the University of Birmingham
13-14 September 2003
Rodney Hilton (1916-2002) is remembered and celebrated in this conference, which takes as its theme ideas and approaches which he devised. The conference will be held at the University of Birmingham where he taught for 36 years, and is sponsored by Past and Present, which he helped to found and which he served as a member of the editorial board and for fourteen years as its chairman.
Rodney Hilton hated platitudes, pieties and hagiography, so this conference will honour him by interpreting the middle ages, noting and exploring his views, and moving forward to new ideas and debates. The purpose of the sessions, detailed below, is to recognize the directions in which he pointed, to define the current developments in key historical issues, and to look forward to future thinking.
Lordship, rent and social structure. What was the impact of lordship on society and economy?
Contributors: Grenville Astill, Peter Coss, Wendy Davies, Phillipp Schofield, Erik Thoen, Chris Wickham.
The peasantry as class and communities. Can we talk of a 'peasant society'?
Contributors: Isabel Alfonso, Monique Bourin, Ros Faith, Miriam Muller, Zvi Razi.
'Non-feudal islands in the feudal seas'. How did towns relate to feudal society?
Contributors: Richard Goddard, Richard Holt, Steve Rigby, Penny Roberts, Heather Swanson.
'Bond men made free'. Rebellion and liberation.
Contributors: Sam Cohn, Steven Justice, Pablo Sanchez, Jane Whittle.
The transition from feudalism to capitalism. Changes in medieval society and the origins of the modern world.
Contributors: Bas van Bavel, Spencer Dimmock, Christopher Dyer, Larry Epstein.
For information and registration forms please contact: Dr Heather Swanson, Department of History, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT
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telephone: 0121 459 4038
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