Political
Culture in
c. 1066 – c. 1300
Colloquium
Please note the
venue:
Seminar Room 1, Department of History
42-3 North Bailey (below the cathedral)
Tuesday, 5 July
15:00 Christoph Egger (
16:00 Tea & Coffee
16:30 Sarah Hamilton (
17:30 Wine Reception, followed by dinner
Wednesday, 6 July
9:30 Guest Speaker
Leidulf Melve (
Advice and counsel in
the letters of Anselm of Canterbury
10:30 Tea & Coffee
11:30 Kimberly LoPrete (
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:30 Björn
Weiler (Aberystwyth), The Men who
would be kings – succession, revolt & the culture of Kingship, c. 1170 – c.
1280
15:30 Tea
& Coffee
16:00 Frank Rexroth (Göttingen), Deposing
a King around 1300:
17:00 Drinks & Dinner
Thursday, 7 July
9:30 Huw Pryce (
10:30 Tea & Coffee
11:30 Piotr Gorecki (UC Riverside),
Law and Power in
Medieval
12:30-14:00 Lunch
Afternoon: Tour of
Friday, 8 July
9:00 Haki Antonsson (
10:00 Deborah
Gerish (
10:30 Tea & Coffee
11:00 Business
meeting
12:30 Lunch & Finish
Minutes
British Academy Research Network
“Political Culture in Norman and Angevin England (1066-1272) in Comparative Perspective
Durham, 5-8 July 2005
Present: Bill Aird (BA), Sarah Hamilton (SH), Björn Weiler (BW), Huw Pryce (HP), Len Scales (LS), Haki Antonsson (HA), Christoph Egger (CE), Frank Rexroth (FR), Kim LoPorete (KL), Piotr Gorecki (PG), Deborah Gerish (DG)
Guest Speaker: Leidulf Melve (Bergen)
Dissemination of network activities:
è webpages:
o BW asked participants to have network webpage (http://users.aber.ac.uk/bkw/britishacademynetwork) linked to personal webpages
o Participants are to engage with the following to have the network page crosslinked:
§ Haskins Society (BA)
§ Medieval Academy (PG)
§ RHS & IHR (BW)
è colloquia and conferences: several conferences will continue to be organised by participants in association with/under the auspices of the network
o Konstanz (FR): universities & scholarship in late medieval Europe
o Historikertag (FR):
o Bergen (HA): kingship and the cult of the saints in the twelfth century
o Gregynog (BW): thirteenth-century England 11
o Cracow: (PG): political culture and historical writing in twelfth-century Europe – the “Gallus Anonymus” and his contemporaries
è Network colloquia: making network meetings open to interested members of the public was considered a success, and is to be continued at the next meeting in 2006
è Leeds: the International Medieval Congress at Leeds remains the main forum for reaching as broad an audience as possible. Initial plans for sessions at Kalamazoo have been shelved, due to the timing of Kalamazoo and the expense involved. For the IMC 2006 a roundtable with participants of the network and others is to be organised. Michael Clanchy has agreed to act as moderator. The following sessions will be organised under the network’s auspices:
o Bureaucracy & Power (CE)
o Royal Female gesture (DG)
o Church Reform (SH)
o Emotions and Shame (FR)
o Gestures of Kings (BW)
è Further collaboration:
o BW & HA to explore the possibility to hold concluding conference (2007) in association with the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Bergen. There may also be a possibility that the Centre would continue funding of the network after 2007. The network has been used successfully in highlighting the international dimension of work at the centre, and has resulted in the Centre being declared a Nordic Centre of Excellence
o FR to explore further he possibility of organising something, and be it post-2007, in collaboration with the Institut für Vergleichende Geschichte Europas im Mittelalter at the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
è Future meetings
o The 2006 meeting will be held at Vienna in the first week of July. Themes will be:
o Participants are encouraged to produce source based discussion papers of no more than 30 minutes in order to leave ample of time for discussion
o The concluding conference is to be held either in conjunction with the Centre for Medieval Studies at Bergen, or at Göttingen