Convenors: CAROLINE BARRON (c.barron@rhul.ac.uk) and MARTHA CARLIN (carlin@uwm.edu)

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Provisional timetable:

Monday, 26 July:

2.30 – 4.00 PM            Session 1A      Travel Writing 

Welcome:  Martha Carlin

Martha Driver:  Mandeville in the Twenty-First Century

Nicholas Orme: William Worcester: Traveller and Collector

5.00 – 6.30 PM            Session 1B       Images and Travel

Lynda Dennison: Travelling Artists and Travelling Books         

Nicholas Rogers: Visual Souvenirs of the Emperor Sigismund’s Visit to England in 1416

8.00 – 9.30 PM            Session 1C       Pamela Tudor-Craig Memorial Lecture

Julia Boffey: Richard Arnold’s Book

Tuesday, 27 July:

2.30 – 4.00 PM            Session 2A      Maps

Alfred Hiatt: Maps and Travel

David Harrison: A Road Map of Medieval England

5.00 – 6.30 PM            Session 2B       Sources for Travel (panel)

Robert Swanson: Visitation and Church Court Records

Joel Rosenthal: Proofs of Age

Joanna Mattingly: Churchwardens’ Accounts

David Harrap: Travel Coffers 

Anthony Gross: Three Travel Objects

8.00 – 9.30 PM            Session 2C       Student posters I

Wednesday, 28 July:

2.30 – 4.00 PM            Session 3A      Inns

Martha Carlin: Inns, Horses, and Stabling

Laura Wright: Inn Clusters in London in the Fifteenth Century

5.00 – 6.30 PM            Session 3B       Entertainment and Travel

Simon Polson: Travelling Minstrels 

Alexandra Johnston: Travelling Entertainers and Their Patrons: York, 1446-9

8.00 – 9.30 PM            Session 3C       Student posters II

Thursday, 29 July:

2.30 – 4.00 PM            Session 4A      Travel and the Body

Carole Rawcliffe: ‘Do not stop at Famagusta’: Travel and Health in the Later Middle Ages

Kelcey Wilson-Lee: Travel and Childbirth

5.00 – 6.30 PM            Session 4B       Women Travellers

Anthony Bale: Margery Kempe and the Female Traveller in the Later Middle Ages

Bart Lambert and Josh Ravenhill: Travelled Women in the Capital: Opportunities for Immigrant Women in London during the Later Middle Ages

8.00 – 9.30 PM            Session 4C       Poster Judging & Book Launch            

Judging of student posters 

Launch of Harlaxton Medieval Symposia volume(s) 

Friday, 30 July:

2:30 – 4:00 PM            Session 5A      Travel Wonders

Alan Thacker: Travels of St Wulfram

Shayne Legassie: Botanical Wonder and Medieval Travel

5:00 – 6:30 PM            Session 5B       Travel and the Exotic

Melanie Taylor: In Search of the Exotic: Visual Evidence of Knowledge and Trade in Simians, Birds, and Wingless Dragons

Kate Franklin: From Marvels to Motels: Imagined and Infrastructural Worlds of the Silk Road Travel

Final words: Caroline Barron