Archive - 2006 (York)

Programme - Friday 2nd June | Saturday 3rd June | Sunday 4th June

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Saturday 3rd June

Session 3: Material Evidence
Chair: Mike Reed
09:30-11:00

Name-stones as Manuscript Pages
Christine Maddern
Conversation by Hands: Gestures in the Bayeux Tapestry
John Mynott
Iconography and Patronage in Norfolk Stained Glass: Some Questions
Claire Daunton

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Session 4: Living in the Landscape
Chair: Louise Wilson
11:30-13:00

The role of decision-making on the processes of famine
Alex Sapoznik
Landscape, memory and custom in the Forest of Dean - c.1200-1625
Simon Sandall
Aspects of Historic Settlement Morphology in Huntingdonshire
Brendan Chester-Kadwell

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Session 5: The Man of Law's Tale
Chair: Bronach Kane
14:00-15:00

Keepers of the Liberty: Stewards in Fourteenth Century England
Rob Kinsey
Great Yarmouth Court Process in the Fourteenth-Century
Janka Rodziewicz

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Session 6: Interpreting the Sacred and the Secular in Medieval Literature
Chair: Rachel Moss
15:15-16:15

In the Mirror, Across the Water: Pearl's River as Speculum Vitae
Adrienne Odasso
'The sunne shone in at her closet': Marian Iconography in Late Medieval English Romance
Chloe Morgan

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Session 7: Women and Power in the Middle Ages
Chair: Wanchen Tai
16:30-18:00

"Ŝeygi henni hendr skulfo": Women and the Acquisition of Power in Atlakvida and Atlamál
Erin Goeres
From Consort to Queen Mother: An Examination of the Available Power in the Different Stages of a Queen's Life Cycle
Lisa Benz
'a good huswyfe': Women's Work in a Fifteenth-Century Ballad
Kate McLean