Online Conference: Medieval Travel: Harlaxton Online Medieval Zoomposium, 26–30 July 2021, 14:30–19:00 (BST)

This year’s Harlaxton Medieval Symposium on the theme of Medieval Travel will take place online via Zoom, Monday 26 July – Friday 30 July 2021.

Registration for all five days: £15 (students/unwaged £10)

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Conference Programme

Monday, 26 July 2021:

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 2021:

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 2021:

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 2021:

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 2021:

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