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)
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
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