medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
From: Dave Postles ([log in to unmask])
Subject: conf: religious and laity
I'm posting this on behalf of our organising committee (Emilia Jamroziak, Steven Venderputten, Kevin Shirley and myself). Please address any enquiries for the booking form to me in the first instance ([log in to unmask]). The details of costs follow the programme.
Conference: The religious and the laity, c.1000-c.1300
Venue: University of Leicester
Date: 31 July-3 August 2003 (this summer)
Thursday 31 July
8.55 Brief welcome
Session 1 Benefactors and Patrons
9.00-9.45 Marjorie Chibnall (University of Cambridge), 'The changing expectations of benefactors in England and Normandy, c.1050-c.1200'
9.45-10.30 Janet Burton (University of Wales, Lampeter), 'Roger de Mowbray and his circle as monastic benefactors'
Chair: Jo Story (University of Leicester)
10.30-11.00 Coffee
11.00-11.45 Sheila Sweetinburgh (University of Kent at Canterbury) 'Royal patrons and local benefactors: the experiences of the hospitals of St Mary at Ospringe and Dover in the 13th century'
11.45-12.30 Emily Mitchell (University of Cambridge), 'Pro me et heredibus meis: family connections to Barking Abbey in the 12th and 13th centuries'
Chair: Dave Postles (University of Leicester)
12.30-13.00 Plenary discussion Chair: Jo Story
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-14.45 Karen Stoeber (University of Wales, Aberystwyth), 'Bequests and burials: changing attitudes of the laity as patrons of English and Welsh monasteries'
14.45-15.30 James Clark (University of Bristol), 'The St Albans Liber benefactorum and confraternity' (title subject to slight alteration)
Chair: tba
15.30-16.00 Tea
16.00-16.45 Erin Jordan (University of North Colorado), ' "For the safety of my soul": the religious patronage of the Countess of Flanders in the 13th century'
Chair: tba
16.45-17.30 Plenary discussion
17.30-18.00 Short reception and welcome
18.00-19.00 Dinner
19.00-20.30 Richard Landes (Boston University), 'Signum perpetui pacti ... quod spoponderant inter se et Deum: the Peace of God, a new Israel, and the conversion of the European laity at the turn of the Millennium'
Chair: Norman Housley (University of Leicester)
Bar
Friday 1 August
Session 2: Representations
9.00-9.45 Philadelphia Ricketts (University of Liverpool), 'Expressing themselves: Yorkshire widows and their religious bequests'
9.45-10.30 Marsha Dutton (Ohio University), 'Sancto Dunstano cooperante: the collaboration of Anglo-Saxon monarchs and monks as exempla for Henry II in the historical works of Aelred of Rievaulx'
Chair: Joanna Huntington (University of York)
10.30-10.45 Coffee
10.45-11.30 Dominic Alexander (University of London), 'The holy man and the crowd: shifting representations in 12th-century hagiography'
Chair: Joanna Huntington
11.30-12.30 William Jordan (Princeton University),
12.30-13.15 Emilia Jamroziak (IHR, London), 'How Cistercian monks remembered their neighbours: the case of Rievaulx Abbey'
Chair: tba
13.15-14.15 Lunch
14.15-14.45 Plenary discussion Chair: Joanna Huntington
14.45-15.15 Tea
Session 3: Conflict and dispute resolution
15.15-16.00 Kevin Shirley (LaGrange College), 'Monastic honorial courts in the early 13th
century'
16.00-16.45 Henk Teunis (Universiteit Utrecht), '(Intervening) bishops and their feuding culture'
Chair: tba
16.45-17.30 Plenary discussion Chair: tba
18.00-19.30 Dinner
19.30-21.00 Stephen White (Emory University), 'Monastic gazes on lay society: models of
conflict in 11th-century French monastic texts'
Chair: Steven Vanderputten
Saturday 2 August
Session 4: Space and environment
9.00-9.45 Jens Roehrkasten (University of Birmingham), 'The impact of the mendicant orders on urban life and development: the case of London'
9.45-10.30 Katherine Barker, 'The Abbey of Cerne and the Forest of Blackmore'
Chair: tba
10.30-11.00 Coffee
11.00-11.30 Plenary discussion
11.30-12.15 Free time
12.15-13.15 Lunch
Session 5: Connections
13.15-14.00 Constance Berman (University of Iowa), 'Lay brothers and lay sisters in
Cistercian (and other) theory and practice'
14.00-14.45 Simon Yarrow (University of Liverpool), 'Gender and the
authorization of the miraculous in twelfth-century England'
Chair: Jasmine Kilburn (Universities of Leicester and Nottingham)
14.45-15.15 Tea
15.15-16.00 Steven Vanderputten (University of Ghent), 'The so-called "decline of literacy" in the tenth and early eleventh century and the impact of small literate groups (such as monastic communities) on (oral) social interaction'
Chair: tba
16.00-16.30 Plenary discussion Chair: Jasmine Kilburn
16.30-18.00 Arnoud-Jan Bijsterveld (Universiteit van Tilburg), 'Looking for common ground. The pursuit of a balance of segregation and interaction between the religious and the laity (10th-12th c.)'
Chair: Emilia Jamroziak
18.00-19.00 Dinner followed by a reception
Sunday 3 August
Session 6: Monastic and pastoral care
9.00-9.45 Anne Lester (Princeton University), 'A misery greater than all miseries: Cistercian nuns and the care of lepers in 13th-century Northern France'
9.45-10.30 Martin Heale (University of York), 'Monastic foundations in parish churches in England and Wales, 1066-1300'
Chair: Jonathan Pitt (WKAC)
10.30-11.15 Graham Jones (University of Leicester), 'Fighting fire: patrons, patients and professionals of the hospitals of St Anthony'
Chair: Jonathan Pitt
11.15-11.45 Coffee and discussion
11.45-13.15 R. I. Moore (University of Newcastle), 'Marginalizing the
majority: religion and the people of medieval Europe'
Chair: George Ferzoco (University of Leicester)
13.15-14.15 Lunch
14.15 Final plenary discussion and departure Chair: tba
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Conference prices
Please note that all prices are inclusive of VAT and registration.
24-hour conference rate
Included in this rate are: single ensuite overnight accommodation at Beaumont Hall; delegate map; car parking; full English breakfast; coffee/tea and home-made biscuits; three-course buffet lunch with coffee/tea; tea/coffee with home-made cake.Ensuite rooms have these facilities: welcome toiletry pack; towels and bed linen; direct dial telephones; personal tea/coffee equipment; shower; washbasin; and toilet. £73 (multiply by number of days attending)
Day delegate rate
Included in this rate are: delegate map; car parking; coffee/tea with home-made biscuits; three-course buffet lunch with coffee/tea; tea/coffee with home-made cake. £36 (multiply by number of days attending)
Dinner: if you are a day delegate, but wish to have dinner, please add £14 for each day of attendance. Wine will be charged extra. £14 (multiply by number of days attending)
24-hour delegate rates:
Arrive 30 July: overnight accommodation: bed and breakfast: £33
Arrive 31 July: 24-hour conference rate: £73
Arrive 1 August: 24-hour conference rate: £73
Arrive 2 August: 24-hour conference rate: £73
Day delegates rates
31 July £36
31 July dinner £14
1 August £36
1 August dinner £14
2 August £36
2 August dinner £14
3 August £36
Postgraduate bursaries
A limited number of postgraduate bursaries (each of £50) are available, but will be reserved for those who cannot obtain funding from their own institutions or any other source. Please respect the need of those who are unable to obtain other funding. Please apply for a bursary before the end of April and we would hope to notify you by the middle of May if you have been successful. Please e-mail your application for a bursary to [log in to unmask]
Travel arrangements
Although the conference brochure has full travel information, a brief note is necessary. Beaumont Hall is in the main complex of halls of residence about three miles from the rail station. There will be a minibus service between the rail station and Beaumont Hall on Wednesday 30 July and on Sunday 3 August. If you wish to use this service, please e-mail [log in to unmask]
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