This year, the Battle Conference on Anglo-Norman Studies will obviously commemorate the 950th anniversary of the Norman conquest of England at the site of the battle of Hastings in Battle

 

The 39th Battle Conference on Anglo-Norman Studies 2016
Battle Abbey School in Hastings
29.07.2016 – 02.08.2016
Booking before the 01.07.2016
Contact: Prof Liesbeth van Houts,
Telephone: +44 (0) 1223 742999
Email: emcv2@cam.ac.uk or mch27@cam.ac.uk

The aim of the Battle conference is the study of British and Norman/Angevin history in the central Middle Ages, broadly defined.  The international conference takes place annually and its proceedings are published in Anglo-Norman Studies.

This year’s conference will commemorate the 950th anniversary of the Norman conquest of England at the site of the battle of Hastings in Battle (Sussex). The Allen Brown Memorial lecture will be given by Dr Chris Lewis.

The speakers are Julie Barrau (Cambride), Stephen Baxter (Oxford), Laura Cleaver (Dublin), Sir Christopher Clark (Cambridge), Brian Golding, Simon Keynes (Cambridge), Brigitte Meijns (Leuven), Thomas O’Donnell (Fordham NY), Mark Philpott (Oxford), Alheydis Plassmann (Bonn), Elisabeth Ridel (Caen), Ann Williams (London), Chris Whittick (East Sussex county archives).

On the afternoon of Saturday 30th July there will be a Public History event with panellists Jeremy Ashbee and Roy Porter (English Heritage).

Programme:

1066 in European context

• Julie Barrau (Cambridge) Bible and Conquest
• Stephen Baxter (Oxford) Cross channel landholding
• Sir Chris Clark (Cambridge) A modern historian’s view of 1066
• Laura Cleaver (Dublin) Battle Abbey Chronicle
• Brian Golding (Southampton) The Entente Cordiale in 1904 and the Battle Abbey Stone
• Chris Lewis (London) [Allen Brown Memorial Lecture] England in Europe
• Simon Keynes (Cambridge) Harold, Waltham and Lotharingian canons
• Brigitte Meijns (Leuven) Religious relations England, Normandy, France
• Thomas O’Donnell (Fordham, USA) Literary portrayals of the Conqueror
• Mark Philpott (Oxford) Coronation matters
• Alheydis Plassmann (Bonn) Germany, England and Normandy c. 1066
• Roy Porter and Jeremy Ashbee (English Heritage) Public History and the Norman Conquest
• Elisabeth Ridel (Caen/CNRS) Ships, Old Norse and the North Sea
• Chris Whittick (East Sussex Archives) The man who enabled Eleanor Searle to do Battle
• Ann Williams (London) Edmund and 1016
• Marjorie Chibnall Essay Prize winner