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Apologies for Cross posting. For those who have not heard, here are the details for the upcoming EMERGE conference. Please circulate this information to anyone on your mailing lists who might be interested. EMERGE 2000 CONFERENCE Early Medieval Europe Research Group Thursday 7th to Saturday 9th September 2000 Heriot-Watt University (Riccarton campus) Edinburgh PROGRAMME (booking details follow) THURSDAY 7 SEPTEMBER 11.30-1.00 Registration and coffee 1.00-2.30 Lunch 2.30-4.00 session 1: Kevin Uhalde: Penance and the Public in Early Medieval Society Morgyn Wagner: Demons, sex and sin: ritual impurity and the Monastery of Tallaght Michael Meckler: Kinship in Adomnan’s Life of Columba 4.00-4.30 afternoon tea 4.30-6.00 session 2: Judith Weise: Cautionary Tales for Young Princesses: Mothers in Beowulf Deborah Trousdale: The Virgin With a Book in Anglo-Saxon England, and Beyond Antonina Harbus: A Cultural Focus on the Mind in Anglo-Saxon England 6.30 reception 7.30 supper FRIDAY 8 SEPTEMBER 9.30-11.00 session 1: Jonathan Jarret: The Political Range of Aedán mac Gabráin, King of Dál Riata Nicholas Evans: The Early History of the Pictish King-lists James Fraser: Egberht, Pehthelm and Naiton: The Sources of Bede's Account of the Conversion of the Picts 11.00-11.30 coffee 11.30-1.00 session 2: Roger Collins: Rituals of Royalty in Visigothic Spain Jorge Lopéz Quiroga and José María Gómez Fraile: Indigenismo, aculturación y tranformación en la génesis de las formaciones socio-políticas durante la Alta Edad Media. Jerome Emmanuel Bepoix: The principle of territoriality in the Visigothic judicial system 1.00-2.30 lunch 2.30-4.00 session 3: Sarah Foot: English, British, pagans and others: identities among the tenth-century Anglo-Saxons Bart Jaski: Hibernia, Ériu, Banba and the Scotti, Féni and Gáedel: Names for Ireland and the Irish and their implications Thomas Owen Clancy: The Kingdom of Cumbria: Creation, Continuity and Cultural Mix 4.00-4.30 tea 4.30-6.00 session 4: Stuart Airlie: Legitimation, Dynasty and Patrimonial Rule in the Carolingian Empire Rob Meens: ‘What is a strangled animal?’ The worries of a king in the ninth century Karen Loaiza: Ottonian Abbesses: power and piety 7.30 Conference dinner SATURDAY 9 SEPTEMBER 9.30-11.00 session 1: Katja Ritari: The nativities of early Irish saints Tom Torma: Feasts in the Brigidine Vitae Hugh Cheape: Searching for a Saint - the Cult of St Finnan 11.00-11.30 coffee 11.30-1.00 session 2: Simon Coates: Venantius Fortunatus and the Bishops of Sixth-Century Gaul Bonnie Effros: Food, Drink and the Expression of Clerical Identity in Merovingian Gaul Andrew Gillet: Authors of Concord: Saints as envoys in early medieval Latin hagiography 1.00-2.30 lunch 2.30-4.00 session 3: Christina Harrington: The Practice of Magic in Early Medieval Ireland: Can We Get Beyond Literary Fiction? Gerd Petterson: Violence, Divination and Gender in the Early Tales of the Fenian Cycle 4.00-4.30 tea and departure. BOOKING INFORMATION Conference Fee: Standard £45.00 Stud./unwaged £20.00 Lunches: Thursday £7.50 Friday £7.50 Saturday £7.50 Dinner: Thursday £8.50 Conference Dinner: Friday £20.00 Accommodation (B&B): Wednesday Standard £26.00 Double £46.00 En-suite £36.00 Thursday Standard £26.00 Double £46.00 En-suite £36.00 Friday Standard £26.00 Double £46.00 En-suite £36.00 Saturday Standard £26.00 Double £46.00 En-suite £36.00 If you are interested in attending the conference, please print off this message, circle your requirements, and return, together with your payment. Payments should be made to EMERGE and booking should reach us by 25 July 2000. For further details contact Alex Woolf on [log in to unmask] or at: Department of Celtic, University of Edinburgh, 19-20 George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9LD Scotland. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%