Conference
England and France before 1500
The 2023 Harlaxton Medieval Symposium
in honour of Dr Jenny Stratford
Harlaxton Manor, Lincolnshire, England
Monday 14 August – Thursday 17 August 2023
We are delighted to announce that this year’s symposium will be held in honour of Dr Jenny Stratford. The theme will be ‘England and France before 1500’, and the symposium will be held Monday 14 August to Thursday 17 August 2023. Further details, including the programme and booking form, are available here.
Dates and deadlines
The 2023 symposium will be held from Monday 14th to Thursday 17th August at Harlaxton Manor and will be convened by Caroline M. Barron and M. A. Michael. The deadline for residential bookings is Sunday 16th July and for non-residential bookings is Sunday 30th July.
PLEASE NOTE: If you wish to post your booking form, please do so by Monday 17th July for second class post and Monday 24th for first class post to ensure that it is received on time.
For more information, go to https://harlaxton.org.uk/, or contact harlaxtonsymposium@gmail.com
Programme
MONDAY 14TH AUGUST
12.00 Registration opens
12.00 – 1.30 Lunch
1.45 Welcome
2.15 – 3.45 Session 1
Sandy Heslop: A Gift from Charles the Bald and the Formation of the Winchester School of Illumination
Amy Livingstone: Grandmothers and Granddaughters in the twelfth-century Anglo-Norman Realm
3.45 – 4.15 Tea / coffee
4.15 – 6.15 Session 2
David Green: The ‘communities’ of the Plantagenet Empire
Michael Jones: The adventures of a recently re-discovered Breton heraldic tabard
Martha Carlin: How to Shop, Haggle, Work, and Curse in French: Vignettes of Daily Life in the Manières de langage (1396, 1399, and 1415)
6.30 – 7.30 Dinner
7.45 Poster presentations and drinks reception
TUESDAY 15TH AUGUST
7.30 – 8.30 Breakfast
8.45 – 10.15 Session 3
Ann Hedeman: Representing King Richard II in early Fifteenth-century France
Nicholas Rogers: An Image of Henry VI as King of France
10.15 – 10.30 Tea / coffee
10.30 – 12.00 Session 4
Catherine Reynolds: The limits of the archaeology of the book: dating the Bedford Hours
Lucy Freeman Sandler: Speaking Lines: Speech Scrolls in the Bedford Hours
12.30 – 7.30 Visit to the gardens and collections of Winwick Manor, the birthplace of Sir Thomas Malory (packed lunch and on-site dinner provided)
8.30 – Bar open
WEDNESDAY 16TH AUGUST
7.30 – 8.30 Breakfast
9.00 – 10.30 Session 5
Alison Stones: Some French Gothic Manuscripts Made for English Patrons
Scot McKendrick: Psalter of Louis, Duke of Guyenne/Dauphin later of Henry VI (BL, Cotton MS Domitian A.XVII)
10.30 – 11.00 Tea / coffee
11.00 – 12.30 Session 6
Anne Curry: Preparing for Regency: John, duke of Bedford, Henry V and the war in France
Ann Adams: Paris and London: two memorials to Anne of Burgundy, Duchess of Bedford (1404–1432)
12.30 – 1.30 Lunch
2.00 – 3.15 Session 7: The Pamela Tudor-Craig Memorial Lecture
Nigel Morgan and Lynda Dennison: The Queen Mary Psalter: Iconography, Style, Dating and Patronage
3.15 – 4.15 Tea / coffee
4.15 – 5.45 Session 8
Christopher Wilson: Rien de plus joli et de plus surprenant: The tomb of Pope John XXII in Avignon Cathedral
Jeremy Ashbee: Richard II and Portchester Castle 6.45 Reception and book launch
7.30 Conference dinner and poster prize presentation (black tie optional)
8.30 Bar open
THURSDAY 17TH AUGUST
7.30 – 8.30 Breakfast
8.30 – 9.15 Check out of rooms
9.15 – 10.45 Session 9
David Rundle: The library of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester and his reading habits
James Clark: French Humanism and Reform in Fifteenth-century England
10.45 –11.00 Tea / coffee
11.00 – 12.30 Session 10
Marc Smith: English knights mangled by French hearsay: Edward IV's army of 1475 in Jean de Haynin and Jean Molinet
Nick Vincent: Generational Disjunction at the English and French Royal Courts, 1066-1485
12.30 – 1.30 Lunch and depart
This programme is provisional and may be subject to change.