The Norwich - York Graduate Medieval Conference

FRIDAY 3rd June

15.15 Death and Personal Status in Medieval Art and Literature. Chair: Rosie Mills

• Andrea Oliver (UEA), Memorialisation and Masculinity in Late Medieval England
• Abigail Bennett (York), ‘Wealth without Wisdom is Worthless’: The Lesson of Atlakvida’s Three Funerals

16.40 Displaying Power in Medieval Cultures. Chair: Janka Rodziewicz

• Kirsty Saunders (York), The Keeper of the Treasure Hoard: The Sutton Hoo Ship Burial as an Active Statement of Wealth
• Frances Foster (UEA), The Royal Entries Richard II and Henry VI

SATURDAY 4th June

9.30 People and Identities I: Altered ‘States’. Chair: Dr. Helen Lacey

• Stephanie Fishwick (York), Shape-Shifting and the Awareness of Identity in Old Norse Literature.
• Nick Williamson (UEA), Representations of the English Body in the Later Middle Ages
• Jenny Benham (UEA), Medieval Hostages – A Definition

11.30 People and Identities II: Reconstructing the Author’s Voice in Medieval Literature. Chair: Lucy Sackville.

• Celka Mewhort (UEA), Changing Concerns Reflected in the Lives of St Swithun
• Helen Birkett (York), Jocelin of Furness: A Life through Vitae

14.00 People and Places: Regional Perspectives on Landscape and Land-Use. Chair: Rik Hoggett

• Bethany Hamblen (York), Aspects of Rural-Urban Migration and Mobility in York’s Immediate Hinterland in the Late Middle Ages.
• Brendan Chester-Kadwell (UEA), Landholding in the High Weald under the Custom of Kent: Some Perspectives on Land Tenure in the Early Modern Period up to 1700
• Maria Riley (UEA), Seeing the Wood for the Trees: A Discussion of the Origins, Development and Uses of Ancient Woodland in Suffolk

16.00 Rethinking High Status Buildings: Medieval and Post Medieval Perspectives. Chair: Chris Milns

• Philip Arkinstall (UEA), Keep-ing it Real: Changing Attitudes to Norwich Castle
• Bill Wilcox (UEA), The Puzzle of Lessingham Priory in Norfolk
• Spencer Smith (UEA), The End of the House of Gwynedd: Excavation of a Medieval Manor Complex in Tatsfield, Surrey

SUNDAY 5th June

9.30 ‘Full Swete Melody’: Music Harmony and Metaphor. Chair: Christopher Bonfield

• Sally Bolitho (York), Music and Death in the English Parish Life c.1400-1550
• Katharine Gray (York), Musical Metaphors in Medieval Mysticism

10.50 Church ‘Frameworks’ in Medieval York and Norwich. Chair: Isla Fay

• Jayne Rimmer (York), The Construction of Small Houses in Medieval York
• Bronach Kane (York), Gendered Representations and Recollections: Age and Authority in the Church Courts of York, c. 1300-1500
• Sue Hedge (UEA), Virtue and Vice in the Vestry: Sixteenth-Century Wall Panelling in Norwich Cathedral