BRITISH ACADEMY RESEARCH NETWORK

 Political Culture in Norman and Angevin England

(1066 – 1272) in Comparative Perspective

Co-ordinator           

Björn K.U. Weiler, University of Wales Aberystwyth http://www.aber.ac.uk/history/new_bjorn_weiler.htm

International Coordinator          

Christoph Egger, Universität Wien http://www.univie.ac.at/Geschichte/l_egger.htmL

Participants

William A. Aird, University of Wales, Cardiff http://www.cf.ac.uk/hisar/people/ba/

Haki Antonsson, University of Cambridge http://www.asnc.cam.ac.uk/Level3/StaffProfiles.html#Antonsson

Michael Brown, University of St Andrews http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/academic/history/scothist/staff/mbrown.shtml

Philippe Buc, Stanford University http://history.stanford.edu/faculty/buc

Deborah J. Gerish, Emporia State University http://www.emporia.edu/socsci/faculty/deb.htm

Sarah Hamilton, University of Exeter http://www.ex.ac.uk/shipss/history/staff/hamilton/index.htm

Kimberley A. LoPrete, National University of Ireland Galway http://www.nuigalway.ie/history/loprete/index.html

Huw Pryce, University of Wales Bangor http://www.bangor.ac.uk/history/staff/Pryce.htm

Frank Rexroth, Universität Göttingen http://www.gwdg.de/~marexro/

Len Scales, University of Durham http://www.dur.ac.uk/History/staff/les.html

Klaus van Eickels, Universität Bamberg http://www.uni-bamberg.de/~ba5mg1/forschung/publikationen/@eickels.htm

Nicholas Vincent, University of East Anglia http://www.uea.ac.uk/his/people/faculty/vincentn.shtml

Rationale

This project, which is hosted by the Department of History & Welsh History at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, and sponsored by the British Academy, seeks to explore the political culture of Norman and Angevin England within its broader European context. In particular, it aims to establish a comparative framework within which to trace differences as well as parallels in the way politics were conducted across the medieval West. To ensure an international perspective this project includes experts on medieval Scandinavian, German, French and Italian as well as Irish, Welsh and English history, and that of the crusader states.

Activities

22 – 24 April 2003                   Aberystwyth, Colloquium

5-8 April 2004                         Bamberg, Colloquium

Conference on Representations of Power in Medieval Germany

Details about sessions to be held at the International Medieval Congress at Leeds will be posted here shortly.