2016 will be the occasion to commemorate the events, when Cnut conquered England, and the corresponding event when William conquered England. Papers will cover a wide-ranging number of topics at the conference Conquest: 1016 and 1066

Conquest: 1016 and 1066. An Interdisciplinary Anniversary Conference
Location: Ioannou Centre and TORCH, Oxford
21.07.1016 – 24.07.2016

Deadline for paper proposals is 31.10.2015

Sessions will run in parallel for 90 minutes each. Paper proposals in the general call should be for 20 minute papers, which will be scheduled in sessions of 3 papers each; if groups of people wish to propose a session in a different format, they are welcome to submit linked proposals. Session and paper proposers are asked to nominate one or more of the thematic strands in which their session/paper would fit:

• The Church; monasticism, clerical reform, theology, religious experience
• Literature, authors, and patronage
• Language and multilingualism, language contact
• Institutions and governance; lordship; kingship
• Warfare, battles, conduct in war, fighting men
• Art and material culture; music; court life
• Society and peoples
• Trade and commerce
• Space, movement, contact, networks; England and Europe, England and Scandinavia
• Historiography

SESSIONS CALLING – proposals warmly invited

1. Economies of Power

2. The English Language in the Long Twelfth Century

3. Domesday Debated

4. The Norman Conquest and its Myth

5. Representing Gender and Conquest

6. Rewriting the Narrative: Archaeological methods and evidence

7. Women and the Conquests 8. Women and the Legitimization of Succession Revisited

9. Neither 1016 nor 1066? Key moments in England’s eleventh-century conquests

10. Conquest 911 – The (proto-)Norman Conquest of Neustria Reconsidered

11. Stories of migration in a century of conquest

Download the CALL FOR PAPERS (PDF)

Download the Paper Proposal form (Word document)

Email paper proposals by 31 October 2015.