Date: 25 Mar 2012 – 27 Mar 2012
Date: Sunday 25 March - Tuesday 27 March 2012
Venue: Bury St Edmunds Cathedral
Keynote speakers:
- Prof. Richard Sharpe (Oxford)
- Prof. Sarah Foot (Oxford)
- Prof. Elisabeth van Houts (Cambridge)
- Prof. Eric Fernie (formerly of The Courtauld)
- Prof. David Bates (University of East Anglia; formerly of the IHR )
Rates: Fixed delegate rate - £35 / Delegate rate + dinner on Monday 26 March 2012 - £70
Contact: To apply for a place as a delegate please contact Dr Tom Licence (UEA): t.licence@uea.ac.uk
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Conference programme:
SUNDAY 25 MARCH
19.00 (Public lecture, Cathedral nave): Prof. Richard Sharpe (Oxford): 'St Edmund and the kings of the English'
MONDAY 26 MARCH
09.30 - coffee
10.00 (Paper, in the lecture room): Prof. David Bates (UEA): 'Bury St Edmunds and the Norman Conquest: an unusual case?'
11.30 (Paper, in the lecture room): Dr Lucy Marten (UEA): 'Baldwin's Book and Domesday Book'
12.45 - lunch
14.00 (Paper, in the lecture room): Dr Tom Licence (UEA):'The cult of St Edmund'
15.30 (Paper, in the lecture room): Dr Elisabeth van Houts (Cambridge): 'Women of St Edmund'
17.00 - free time for discussion etc
18.30 (Public lecture, Cathedral nave): Prof. Sarah Foot (Oxford): 'The abbey's armoury of charters'
19.45 - dinner
TUESDAY 27 MARCH
09.00 - coffee
09.30 (Paper, in the lecture room): Prof. Eric Fernie (London): 'Building the Anglo-Norman abbey'
10.45 (Paper, in the lecture room): Dr Tessa Webber (Cambridge): 'Book production and the use of books in the Anglo-Norman Abbey'
12.00 – lunch
13.15 (Paper, in the lecture room): Mr Michael Gullick: ‘Two Medical Manuscripts from Bury St Edmunds’
14.30 (Paper, in the lecture room): Dr Debby Banham (Cambridge): 'Medicine at the Abbey under Abbot Baldwin'
15.45 – break
16.00 (Paper, in the lecture room): Dr Henry Parkes (Cambridge): ‘St Edmund: Music and Liturgy’.
17.15 - free time for discussion
17.30 - Evensong, with a reconstruction of music from the Anglo-Norman abbey
18.30 (Public lecture, Cathedral nave): Dr Antonia Gransden: 'The Abbey of Bury St Edmunds in the Twelfth Century'
