Venue: German Dept., University of Bristol, at 21 Woodland Road, Bristol.
Programme.
Sat 17 Feb.
'A community of sufferers: pain, children and original sin'
(Don Mowbray, Univ of Bristol)
'Uniting the community of the living with the dead: the use of
other-wordly visions in the early Middle Ages'
(Michelle Lucy, Corpus Christi College, Univ of Oxford)
'Communities of the dead: the evidence for living populations
from pagan Anglo-Saxon cemeteries'
Nick Stoodley (Univ of Reading)
'Will, wont, and world: the noble testator's perception and use
of community ties in late-medieval England'
Sharon Abra Hanen (Univ of Leeds)
'Households and hamlets: bilingual communities in medieval Wales
and the March'
(Jason O'Rourke, Queen's University, Belfast)
'Interpreting the written community: the medieval custumals of
Sandwich'
(Justin Croft, Univ of Kent)
'Community, creative text and performance in Lydd, Kent'
(Spencer Dimmock, Univ of Kent)
Sunday 18 Feb.
'Alone among many: Margery Kempe's tactics of isolation on
pilgrimage'
(Elaine Kelly, Univ of Bristol)
'Churches and the social landscape. Three cults of saints in
Gloucestershire and problems in the identification of
community'
(Graham Jones, Univ of Leicester)
'Care in the community: fact, folklore, and fatherless children
in medieval England, c.1200-c.1420'
(Noel James, Univ of York)
'The position of widows in the later fourteenth-century English
community and the _Wife of Bath's Prologue_'
(Conor McCarthy, Trinity College Dublin)
'Sin and the medieval community: the rise of avarice in late
medieval French literature'
(Joanne Monk, Univ of Manchester)
There is NO conference fee, but some idea of numbers is necessary. Free
accommodation may be provided. Information about Bristol and the University
can be found at this URL: http://www.bris.ac.uk
Please contact the organisers for further information or to reserve a place.
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