Political Culture in Three Spheres
c. 711 – c. 1453
Aberystwyth
1-3
July 2008
Organisers:
Catherine
Holmes (
Jo van Steenbergen (Ghent) Björn Weiler (Aberystwyth)
Participants
include:
Stephen
Humphreys (UC Santa Barbara), Patricia Crone (Princeton), Eric Hanne (Florida
AU), Andrew Marsham (Manchester), Alex Metcalfe (Lancaster), Jenny Oesterle (Bochum),
Angus Stewart (St Andrews); Alexander Beihammer (Cyprus), Judith Gilliland
(Oxford), Judith Herrin (London), Greg Landels (Birmingham), Claudia Ludwig
(Berlin), Rosemary Morris (York), Ida Toth (Oxford); Nora Berend
(Cambridge),Tom Brown (Edinburgh), Bernard Gowers (Oxford), Ármann Jakobsson
(Réykjavik), Leidulf Melve (Bergen), Daniel Power (Swansea), John Ott
(Portland), Len Scales (Durham)
Venue:
Old College, Council Chamber,
King’s Road Aberystwyth
With generous financial support from
The Department of History & Welsh
History
and
The Aberystwyth University Research Fund
This
meeting emerges out of a series of sessions held at the Leeds International
Medieval Congress since 2004, and is aimed at exploring commonalities and differences
in the theory and practice of politics between the medieval cultures
surrounding a Mediterranean broadly defined as including Northern Europe, Rus,
as well as
There will be
no conference fees, and participants will have to arrange
their own accommodation. We will book local restaurants, but at the
expense of participants.
To arrange
for meals, the organisers would appreciate if those intending to participate
could send a registration form,
either by e-mail or post. A preliminary programme
is now available.
For further enquiries please contact Björn Weiler
Last updated: 26 June 2008