Organised by Anna Begley, Megan Bunce, James Cogbill, Sigrid Koerner, Mary O’Connor, Keoni O’Reilly, Martin Stuart and Eugenia Vorobeva
Sponsored by the Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature and the Oxford Centre for Late Antiquity
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Thursday 22nd April 2021
09.30: Opening Remarks (Eugenia Vorobeva)
09.40: Session 1 – Memory of Other Lands (Chair: Keoni O’Reilly)
Benjamin Sharkey (Magdalen College, Oxford), Remembering Jerusalem: Christian Storytelling at a Silk Road Oasis, Ninth to Twelfth Centuries
Zainab Wani (Jawaharlal Nehru University), Remembering Iran, Valorising Kashmir: Different Ways of Memorialising Homeland
Matthew Firth (Flinders University), Memories of England in the ‘Sagas of Icelanders’
11.00: Break
12.00: Session 2 – Archives and Legal Memory (Chair: Mary O’Connor)
Harry Platts (Independent Scholar), Forgetting the Hundred Moots: How did the Practise and the Memory of Late-Saxon Assembly Transform in Late Medieval England?
John Merrington (All Souls College, Oxford), Forgetting the Archives? The Early Medieval Transmission of Gregory of Tours’ ‘Histories’ Reconsidered
Riya Gupta (Jawaharlal Nehru University), Dynastic Memory and Identity Experiments in Mughal Lower Bureaucracy: A Case Study of Qayamkhani Mansabdars
James Miller (University College, Oxford), ‘Haec carta, lecta atque audita’: Public Performance and Memory of Disputes in Twelfth-Century Brittany
13.40: Break
15.00: Keynote Lecture (Chair: Eugenia Vorobeva)
Professor Hannah Skoda (St. John’s College, Oxford), ‘The Former Age rebukes the new’: Genealogies of Nostalgia in the Long Fourteenth Century
16.00: Session 3 – National Memory (Chair: Martin Stuart)
Ruth Rimmer (University of York), Constructing Collective Memory in ‘The Ruin’
David Lees (Aberystwyth University), Geoffrey of Monmouth and the Construction of Cornwall in Twelfth-Century Literature
Sara Moure López (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela), Grieving, Mourning and Remembrance. The Role of Emotions in the Construction of Memory of Defeat in Castile around 1200
17.20: Break
19.00: Social Event
Friday 23rd April 2021
09.30: Session 4 – Memory and Physical Objects (Chair: Sigrid Koerner)
Rowan Wilson (St. Hilda’s College, Oxford), ‘Then he turnes to þe toumbe and talkes to þe corce’: Encountering the Bodies of Historical Memory in Medieval Literature
Woo Ree Heor (Graduate Center—City University of New York), ‘As freshe as any rose newe’: Hector’s Corpse and the Desire for the Past in the ‘Troy Book’
Hubert Leponika (Podlasie Museum, Białystok), Lost Memory Told Once More. Stele Cemeteries in the Podlasie Region (North-Eastern Poland)
George Beckett (University of Leeds), Manuscript Memory: Reading ‘Beowulf’ as ‘Intratext’
11.10: Break
12.00: Session 5 – Memory and the Church (Chair: Megan Bunce)
Joseph Hopper (University College London), Memory and Salvation in Hugh of St. Victor’s ‘De sacramentis christianae fidei’
Harry Spillane (Peterhouse, Cambridge), ‘A Matter Newly Seene?’: Matthew Parker, English Bibles, and the Anglo-Saxon Church
Richard Asquith (Royal Holloway, University of London), ‘Be yt remembred’: The Construction and Maintenance of Memory in the Records of London’s Pre-Reformation Parishes
13.20: Break
15.00: Keynote Lecture (Chair: James Cogbill)
Dr Graeme Ward (Jesus College, Oxford), Memory, Textual Authority, and the Distance of the Past: The Case of Amalarius of Metz, c. 800-1100
16.00: Session 6 – Interpretation of Memory (Chair: Anna Begley)
Aline Douma (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen), Forgotten, Not Forgiven? Repressed Memories of the Wars of the Roses in George Ashby’s ‘Active Policy of a Prince’
Brian Egede-Pedersen (Independent Scholar), ‘Templars, Fight or Fall!’ – Remembering the Knights Templar in Power Metal
Madeleine S. Killacky (Bangor University), Memory and Emotion in Malory’s ‘Tale of the Death of Arthur’
17.20: Closing Remarks (James Cogbill)
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