Dear Listmembers:
* University of Bristol Centre for Medieval Studies*
Third Postgraduate Conference on "Authority"
15th-16th February 1997
****************************************************
Saturday 15th February
2.00-2.40pm RICHARD LAMBERT (Bristol): 'Authority in the Hands of the
Preacher: Stephen of Bourbon's Treatise on the Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit'
2.40-3.20pm LOUISE NELSTROP (Birmingham): 'The Spiritual Authority of Imagery'
3.40-4.20pm LUCY LEWIS (Queen Mary and Westfield, London): 'Youth and Age:
Crisis and Counsel in Richard II's Reign'
4.20-5.00pm BONNIE MILLAR (Nottingham): 'Figures of Authority and the
"Siege of Jerusalem"'
5.20-6.00pm DAVID ALEGRIA (Navarre): 'Father Against Son: The Chronicle of
the Kings of Navarre in the Context of the Navarrese Civil War in the
Fifteenth Century'
6.00-6.40pm JOEL BURDEN (York): 'Burying the Past: The Representation of
Authority in Fifteenth-Century English Royal Succession'
Sunday 16th February
9.00-9.40am RONALD HAYNES (Bristol): 'Ascent and Dissent: St. John of the
Cross and Authority'
9.40-10.20am ALISON RENSHAW (King's College, London): 'The Authoritative
Conscience'
10.40-11.20am MARLEEN CRE (Antwerp): 'Westminster Cathedral Treasury MS 4:
Writing a Text in Somebody Else's Words'
11.20-12.00am NIKKI THORPE (Birmingham):'Textual Authority: Through the
Eyes of a Fifteenth-Century Woman Reader'
12.10-12.50pm MARK MERRY (Kent): 'Public and Private Lives in
Fifteenth-Century Towns'
12.50-1.30pm SHEILA SWEETINBURGH (Kent): 'The St. Bartholomew's Day
Procession: The Construction of Civic Identity in Medieval Sandwich'
________________________________________________________________
Conference registration will take place from midday on Saturday 15th
February at the University oif Bristol German Dept., 21 Woodland Road.
Anyone interested in attending the conference should contact the organiser
(address below). There is NO CONFERENCE FEE, but we do need to have some
idea of numbers.
Those in need of accommodation should contact the organiser by the end of
January. We will at least be able to provide you with free floor spaces!!
Otherwise we can provde a list of local hotels and B&Bs.
Directions to the University can be found on the University Homepage: http://
www.bris.ac.uk. For information about this conference (and other Centre
for Medieval Studies events) see the Centre for Medieval Studies' Homepage:
http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/Medieval.
For further information, contact:
Mr. Don Mowbray
Dept. of Historical Studies
13 Woodland Road
Bristol BS8 1TB
([log in to unmask])
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
|