medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
The following conference may be of some interest to
list members:
The Limits of Medieval Biography: a Conference in Honour of
Professor Frank Barlow St Luke's Campus, University of
Exeter, 10-12 July 2003
The Department of History at Exeter University, together
with Professor David Bates of the University of Glasgow,
are staging a conference to honour the historian and
scholar, Frank Barlow F.B.A. (Professor of History at
Exeter, 1953-76, Professor Emeritus 1977). The theme has
been chosen to celebrate one strand in Professor Barlow's
exceptionally long and distinguished publishing career.
Professor Barlow set new standards in the field of medieval
biography in his accounts of the lives of Edward the
Confessor, William Rufus and Thomas Becket, and in his
edition of theVita Edwardi. This conference brings together
leading historians of the central Middle Ages who face or
have faced in their own work the problem of constructing
and representing medieval lives. Two aims underlie these
sessions: first,to discuss of the possibilities of a
seemingly unpromising documentary record, from which the
sorts of information available to historians and
biographers writing about later periods are notably
lacking; second, to reflect on biographical conventions,
medieval and modern.
List of speakers:
Richard Abels:
'King Alfred's Biographers: Images and Imagination'
Robert Bartlett :
'St Anselm and his Biographer and St Thomas and his: R.W.
Southern, Frank Barlow and the Issue of Religious Belief
for Mediaevalists'
David Bates : 'The Conqueror's Earliest Historians and the
Writing of Biography'
Marjorie Chibnall 'Some Limits to the Biographies of
Medieval Queens: the Empress Mathilda'
David Crouch: 'Reconstructing a Life in the Middle Ages:
William Marshal and his Biographer'
Robin Fleming: 'Vague Descriptions and Intimate Details:
Biographical Texts and Bioarchaeological Evidence in Late
Anglo-Saxon England'
John Gillingham: 'Henry II and the Historians'
Lindy Grant: 'Mentor of Arnulf of Lisieux: Geoffrey of
Leves, Bishop of Chartres'
Judith Green : 'Henry I and the Fictions of the Past'
Christopher Holdsworth: 'Miracles and Biography: The Case
of Bernard of Clairvaux'
Simon Keynes: 'Re-Reading King Æthelred the Unready'
Edmund King: 'The Gesta Stephani'
Jane Martindale: 'Perceptions of the Angevin and Poitevin
Dynasties'
Janet Nelson : 'Did Charlemagne have a Private Life?'
Pauline Stafford : 'Writing the Biographies of
Eleventh-Century Women'
Elisabeth van Houts: 'The Flemish Contribution to
Biographical Writing in the Eleventh Century'
Nicholas Vincent: 'The Plantagenet Kings, 1154-1272: The
Case of the Missing Biographies'
Barbara Yorke : 'Writing the Biographies of Anglo-Saxon
Female Saints'
Further details and a booking form are available at:
http://www.ex.ac.uk/shipss/history/events/medbiog.htm
Or contact Sarah Hamilton ([log in to unmask]) or Julia
Crick ([log in to unmask])
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Dr Sarah Hamilton
Department of History
School of Historical, Political and Sociological Studies
University of Exeter
Amory Building
Rennes Drive
EXETER
EX4 4RJ
Tel: (01392) 264286
Fax: (01392) 263305
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