Monday, February 21, 2011

Revealing Records, a one-day postgraduate research conference on medieval records

Revealing Records, a one-day postgraduate research conference on medieval records is now in its third year at King's College London.
This year's conference will take place on 27 May at the Strand Campus, 9.30 - 17.30hrs.
I've attended this event for the past two years, and it's well worth it!
For more information see below, and check out: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/depts/history/events/revealingrecords.html

Kathleen

Program details are:
Morning Session

Keynote Speech by Professor Peter Heather (KCL)
Henry Fairbairn (KCL), Coins and Politics in King Stephen’s Reign
Katherine Buchanan (Stirling), Tracing Footprints: Assessing Medieval Scottish Castle Landscapes
Gerald Mako (Cambridge), Ibn Fadlan and the Islamization of the Volga Bulgars
Julia McClure (Sheffield), The Franciscans and the Anxieties of Discourse

Afternoon Session
Keynote Speech by Professor Nicholas Vincent (UEA)
Johanna Dale (UEA), Saints’ feasts, the liturgical calendar and royal coronations c.1050-c.1250
Claudia Tripodi (Florence), Florentine Ricordanze in the Early Renaissance
Thomas Smith (Royal Holloway), The Papal Registers of Honorius III and the Concept of Responsive Government
Simon John (Swansea), Perceptions of the First Crusade in thirteenth-century Exempla
Daniel Brown (Queen’s, Belfast), The Evolution of Formulae and Protocol in the Charters of Hugh de Lacy, 1191x1243
William Stewart-Parker (KCL), The Compton Bassett Charters: Charter Production and Replication

Registration £5 (includes lunch, refreshments and reception). Please send contact details (including email) with a cheque payable to ‘King’s College London’, to Sophie Ambler, Department of History, King’s College London, Strand, London, WC2R 2LS by 1 May 2011. For further information, please contact: revealingrecords@gmail.com

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