Future Events
Conference Title: Power and Acculturation in the Norman World
Dates: 15th -17th December 2011.
Programme: Final conference programme (pdf).
Venue: Conference Centre, Lancaster University - campus map
Registration: to register for the conference and book accommodation, please click on the following link - How to Register
Travel Information:
Campus Accommodation: Those who bave booked on-campus accommodation can collect their room keys from the Conference Centre Reception.
Previous Events
Symposium Five: Life on the Norman Edge
Date: 14 December 2010
Papers Given:
Dr Linsey Hunter (St Andrews) 'Afterlife on the Norman Edge: pro anima clauses, families and lordships in Norman Britain'
Lean Seoine Ni Chleirigh (Trinity College, Dublin) 'Gesta Normannorum ? The discussion of the Normans of southern Italy in the Latin chronicles of the First Crusade'
Dr Max Lieberman (University of Zurich) 'State Formation and the March of Wales, c.1066-1300'
Prof. Matthew Strickland (Glasgow) Title tbc
Symposium Four: Local boundaries and national frontiers of the Norman World
Date: 10 July 2010
Papers Given:
Dr Leonie Hicks (Southampton), 'Borders and frontiers in Norman Chronicles'
Dr Ewan Johnson (Lancaster), 'Land boundaries and cultural contact in Southern Italy'
Prof. Denys Pringle (Cardiff), 'Castles and frontiers in the Latin East'
Dr Angus Winchester (Lancaster), 'Territorial continuity at a local level? Early estate structures in Cumbria'
Dr Alexander Grant (Lancaster), 'Boundaries and frontiers in Strathclyde and Lothian'
Symposium Three: Colonial Mentalities
Date: 16 December 2009
Papers Given:
Dr Hugh Doherty (Jesus College and Faculty of History, Oxford), 'The Angevin kings and their officials. An imperial mentality?'
Prof. Robin Frame (Durham), 'Ireland after Henry II: revisiting identities on the ‘English’ edge'
Dr Elisabeth van Houts (Emmanuel College, Cambridge), 'Intermarriage in eleventh-century England'
Prof. Andrew Jotischky (Lancaster University), ‘Franks and “natives” in the Crusader States: the state of the question’ - to see this paper, click here.
Dr Paul Oldfield (Manchester Metropolitan University), 'Urban communities and the Normans, Southern Italy 1000-1200'
Symposium Two: Charters and the Language of Power
Date: 06 July 2009
Papers Given:
Dr Jonathan Gledhill (Lancaster University), 'Charter methodologies and state building in medieval Scotland'
Dr Alex Metcalfe (Lancaster University) 'The language of boundaries clauses in Norman Sicily'
Dr John Reuben Davies (Glasgow University)
Symposium One: Normannitas - Approaches to Understanding Norman Identities
Date: 17-19 December 2008
Papers Given:
Prof. Marcus Bull (Bristol), 'Normannitas and ‘Frankishness’
Prof. Daniel Power (Swansea), 'Norman identity and the identity of Normandy c.1000-1200'
Prof. Graham Loud (Leeds), 'How Norman was Norman Italy (ancora una volta)?'
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