Programme
Sunday 23 March 2014
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
2.15-3.45pm – Session 1
- David Abulafia (Cambridge), ‘The transformation of the Norman kingdom of Sicily’
- Edoardo d’Angelo (Naples) ‘A Norman school in the Holy Land?’
3.45-4.15pm – Tea/coffee
4.15-5.45pm – 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’
7.00pm – Dinner
Monday 24 March 2014
9.30-11.00am – 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’
11.00-11.30am – Tea/coffee
11.30-1.00pm – Session 4
- Giuseppe Mastrominico (Ariano Irpino), ‘Law and literature in the Courts of Love’
- Lindy Grant (Reading), ‘Angevin princesses as agents of cultural transmission’
1.00-2.30pm – Lunch
2.30-4.00pm – 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’
4.00-4.30pm – Tea/coffee
4.30pm – Exhibition Emmanuel College Library Medieval Manuscripts
7.00pm – Conference Dinner
Tuesday 25 March 2014
9.00-10.30am – 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’
10.30-11.00am – Tea/coffee
11.00-11.45am – Session 7
- Marie-Agnès Avenel (Caen), Ecrire la conquête: une comparaison des récits de Guillaume de Poitiers et Geoffrey Malaterra
11.45-12.15pm – Session 8
- David Bates (East Anglia/Cambridge) Concluding remarks Editors’ information about plans for publication
12.30pm – 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)
