People, Texts and Artefacts: Cultural Transmission in the Norman Worlds of the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries.
Emmanuel College, Cambridge 23-25 March 2014
Programme
Sunday 23 March
12.00-2.00pm Registration and informal lunch Queens’ building, Harrods Room
2.00pm Welcome by Professor Elisabeth van Houts (Cambridge) Queens’ Building, Lecture Theatre
2.15-3.45 Session 1
David Abulafia (Cambridge), ‘The transformation of the Norman kingdom of Sicily’
Edoardo d’Angelo (Naples) ‘A Norman school in the Holy Land?’
3.45-4.15 Tea/coffee
4.15-5.45 Session 2
Paul Oldfield (Manchester), ‘The Bari charter of privileges of 1132: articulating the culture of a new Norman monarchy’
Alice Taylor (King’s College, London), ‘Homage in Norman law and chronicles’
7.00 Dinner
Monday 24 March
9.30-11.00 Session 3
Tom Licence (East Anglia), ‘Historical writing at St. Vincent’s, Metz and its influence in the Anglo-Norman world’
Mario Zecchino (Bologna) ‘Weights and measures in the Norman- Swabian world’
11.00-11.30 Tea/coffee
11.30-1.00 Session 4
Giuseppe Mastrominico (Ariano Irpino), ‘Law and literature in the Courts of Love’
Lindy Grant (Reading), ‘Angevin princesses as agents of cultural transmission’
1.00-2.30 Lunch
2.30-4.00 Session 5
Anna Laura Trombetti (Bologna) ‘Attività legislativa di Guglielmo I e di Guglielmo II’
Robert Liddiard (East Anglia), ‘The Landscapes and the Material Culture of the Anglo-Norman Empire: Chronology and Cultural Transmission’
4.00-4.30 Tea/coffee
4.30 Exhibition Emmanuel College Library Medieval Manuscripts
7.00 Conference Dinner
Tuesday 25 March
9.00-10.30 Session 6
Graham Loud (Leeds),’The medieval archives of the abbey of S.Trinità, Cava’
Teofilo de Angelis (University of Cassino-Basso Lazio)‘The manuscript tradition of Petro of Eboli’s De balneis Puteolanis: recensio and stemma codicum’
10.30-11.00 Tea/coffee
11.00-11.45 Session 7
Marie-Agnès Avenel (Caen), Ecrire la conquête: une comparaison des récits de Guillaume de Poitiers et Geoffrey Malaterra
11.45-12.15 Session 8
David Bates (East Anglia/Cambridge) Concluding remarks Editors’ information about plans for publication
12.30 departure
The conference can be booked from 17 January 2014 (until 15 March 2014) through the University of Cambridge conference e-sales facility and then look for ‘Conferences’ and ‘History’.
For six graduate students’ bursaries (a reduction of £50), please contact Elisabeth van Houts (emcv2@cam.ac.uk)
