Thirteenth Century Conference XIX

The Thirteenth Century Conference – formerly Thirteenth Century England - has been running every two years for over thirty years. In 2015 the Conference moved from Aberystwyth to Cambridge, and we are back (after a delay due to the pandemic) for the XIXth edition in September 2022. The Conference represents the largest forum devoted specifically to work on the Long Thirteenth Century and has over the years served to introduce many new scholars and new scholarship to those working on the period. (For publications from previous conferences, click here.) In 2019, the conference was given a change of name to reflect a broadening in geographical scope and ambition.

The theme in 2022 is ‘Recovery and Renewal’. There will be a keynote lecture from Professor John Arnold, University of Cambridge.

This is an in-person event (with one paper to be delivered remotely) at Selwyn College. Overnight accommodation at Selwyn will be available. Delegates will not be able to join online.

The conference organizers are Julie Barrau, Chris Briggs,  Andrew Spencer and Carl Watkins. If you have an enquiry about the conference, please contact Andrew Spencer (ams88@cam.ac.uk).

Further details about costs and how to book are available here.

The conference organizers gratefully acknowledge the support of the Trevelyan and Lightfoot Funds of the Faculty of History, University of Cambridge.

 

 

Provisional programme

Monday 12 September

Arrival and registration: 12pm-1pm (cafeteria lunch available at own expense if you arrive early)

 

Session 1: 1pm-2.45pm

Adam Chambers (King’s College, London), ‘Recovered information and renewed corporate memory in the chancery of Henry III of England’

Nick Barratt (Open University), ‘Breaking the paradox: recovery, renewal and reform in the thirteenth-century Exchequer’

 

Session 2 3.15pm-5pm

Antoni Grabowski (Polish Academy of Sciences), ‘Recovering the truth, renewing the spirit. A thirteenth-century search for the true Holy Lance’

Patrick Cowley (Cambridge), ‘Crucifix miracles in thirteenth-century England’

 

Session 3 – Keynote lecture, 5.30pm-6.45pm

John Arnold (Cambridge), ‘Firmiter credimus: the renewal of lay belief in thirteenth-century Europe’

 

7.30pm – Conference Dinner

 

Tuesday 13 September

 

Session 4: 9am-10.45am

Antonia Shacklock (Cambridge), ‘“Power and forgiveness”: Henry III and the renewal of royal authority after Evesham, 1265-1272

Adrian Jobson (University of East Anglia), ‘And forgive them that trespass against us?: Lordship, reconciliation and the recovery process in post-Evesham England’

 

Session 5: 11.30am-1.15pm

Beth Summerfeld (Aberystwyth), ‘The role of the supernatural in the Chronica Majora and its implications for universal history’

Amanda Luyster (College of the Holy Cross, MA), ‘Recovery and Loss: The Chertsey Tiles, the Antioch Chambers, and an Attempt at Reconstruction.’ [This paper will be delivered remotely via video link]

 

Session 6: 2.15pm -4pm

John Marshal (Trinity College, Dublin) ‘Inheritance recovery and the ambiguity of partition: the case of the Marshal inheritance, 1247–96’

Alexander Kelleher (Trinity College, Dublin), ‘All the king’s men: the office of warden and the restoration of Plantagenet authority in the Channel Islands in the thirteenth century’