Minutes of the British Academy International Research Network Meeting, Political Culture in Norman and Angevin England in Comparative Perspective, 1066-1272, Bamberg, 5-8 April 2004

 

Present: Christoph Egger (CE), Klaus van Eickels (KE), Frank Rexroth (FR), Piotr Gorecki (PG), Bill Aird (BA), Sarah Hamilton (SH), Björn Weiler (BW)

  1. Further Participants

The network is still short of experts on the Mediterranean.

 

  1. Next Meeting

The date and venue for the 2005 meeting were discussed. It is paramount that the budget will be exhausted. Two alternatives emerged:

-         Durham, 5-8 July 2005 (to be confirmed with Len Scales), i.e. the week before the IMC at Leeds. This will only achieve its objective if as many people as possible attend.

-         Vienna, 21-24 March 2005

BW is to e-mail individual participants and ask them to confirm at which of the two dates they would be unavailable, and what their paper would be. CE pointed out that, in order to secure suitable accommodation in Vienna, early bookings were essential.

The meeting will be held at Durham

 

  1. Grants

This project is funded for five years. However, after three years, an interim report will have to be produced to justify a further allocation of funding. One key assessment criterium will be the number of further research project grants applied for. BW therefore distributed a series of grant outlines

-         British Academy: visiting professor scheme, small research grant scheme

-         AHRB: Resource enhancement grant, major research projects

-         Volkswagenstiftung: international collaborative meetings

-         Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft: international collaborative projects; Eastern and Western Europe

-         European Science Foundation: International exploratory workshop grant

It was decided that applications for some of these grants will be discussed in London. FR and KE are to explore Volkswagenstiftung and Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft opportunities; European Science Foundation may be a source of funding for the concluding conference in 2007. One AHRB major research project grant to be applied for would be a project on “Secular and ecclesiastical assemblies in the medieval west, c. 1100 – c. 1215”. Applications under the British Academy’s visiting professorship scheme will be handled by individual participants.

 

  1. Gallus Anonymous

PG & BW are to explore the possibility of holding a colloquium/conference on the Gesta Principum Polonorum in co-operation with Polish academics. European Science Foundation and Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft funds could be tapped.

The meeting, to be held at Krakow, will take place in late 2006/early 2007

 

  1. Leeds 2005

Sessions to be organised at Leeds were discussed. The following themes emerged:

-         Family and gender roles

-         Assemblies and councils

-         Father-son relatuionships (KE & BA)

-         Rules of behaviour

-         Emotions (as a round table topic)

Participants will organise sessions individually, but are asked to keep BW informed.

 

  1. Papers read

The following papers were read:

-         The Punishment of Treason in Norman England, KE

-         Great remedy for transgressions: excommunication in eleventh- and twelfth- century England, SH

-         Rebellion, process and status in England and Germany (1232-5), BW

-         Father-son relationships among the nobility of north-western Europe in the eleventh century, BA

-         Piast power reconsidered, KG

The guest lecture was given by Prof. Knut Görich, Ludwig-Maximillians-Universität, Munich, who spoke about Ehre als Handlungsmotiv. Friedrich II im Konflikt mit den lomardischen Städten