The Fifteenth-CenturyConference 2016
Royal Holloway and Bedford New College
University of London
1-3 September 2016
Thursday, 1 September 2016
12.00-2.00 Registration & Coffee
2.00Welcome
2.15Prof. Jonathan Harris (Royal Holloway), ‘Byzantine refugees as crusade propagandists: The travels of Nicholas Agallon, 1454-5’
3.15Parallel Sessions:
Warfare in the Later Middle Ages:
Michael Warner (Southampton): ‘The Agincourt Muster Rolls: A Comparative Survey’
Dr Daniel Spencer (Southampton): ‘The Role of the Castle in the Wars of the Roses’
or
The Church and Politics:
Claire Kennan (Royal Holloway): ‘From Parochial Association to Political Players: The Holy Trinity Guild in Fifteenth Century Louth, Lincolnshire’
Daniel Gosling (Leeds): ‘The Cardinal’s Curse? A comparison between Cardinals Beaufort and Wolsey, with particular reference to their relationships with praemunire’
4.15Tea
4.45Prof. Peter Spufford (Cambridge): ‘Currency debasement and trade in the fifteenth-century Low Countries’
5.45Parallel Sessions:
Law and Sorcery in Fifteenth-Century England
Elizabeth Biggs (York): ‘Reassessing the 1441 Trial of Eleanor Cobham, duchess of Gloucester’
Dr Tom Johnson (York): ‘Soothsayers, Dispute Settlement, and Law in Fifteenth-Century England’
or
Heraldry, Manuscripts and Early Printing
Dr Elizabeth Savage (Cambridge): ‘An Unidentified Fifteenth-Century Printing Technique? Reconstructing Workshop Methods for the Book of St Albans, 1486’
Sheri Chriqui (Royal Holloway): ‘Trojans, Cadency Marks, and the Origins of English Heraldry’
6.45Drinks reception
7.30Dinner
Friday, 2 September 2016
8.00-9.00 Breakfast
9.00-10.30Parallel sessions:
Pirates, Pretenders and Maids of All Sorts
Helen Kavanagh (Royal Holloway): ‘ “Turpis Vicus” and other sexually explicit streets: Gropecunt Lanes in Medieval English provincial towns in the Fifteenth Century’
Zosia Edwards (Royal Holloway): ‘Pretenders and Identity Thieves in Later Medieval London’
Samuel Drake (Royal Holloway): ‘Mariners and Marauders: Fowey during the Hundred Years’ War, 1400-c. 1453’
or
Britain, Burgundy and the Low Countries
Chris Ford (Southampton): ‘The Sluis Seizures, Good Friday, 13 April 1403’
Dr Laura Crombie (York): ‘Diplomatic relations between Scotland and the Burgundian Low Countries, c.1384-1500’
Dr Anthony Gross ‘Images of the Dukes of Burgundy: a new perspective on Jean Malouel's death portrait of Philip the Bold’
10.30Coffee
11.00-12.00Collegiate Churches in Fifteenth-Century England and Scotland
Dr Euan Roger (Royal Holloway): ‘Patronage, Purgatory and Pigeons: Difficulties, Challenges and Rewards in the Building of Edward IV’s New St George’s Chapel in Windsor Castle’
Elizabeth Swarbrick (St Andrews): ‘Magnificent and Sumptuous Work’: Investment and Invention in the Art and Architecture of Fifteenth-Century Scottish Collegiate Churches’
12.00Lunch
1.00-4.00Outing to St. George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, and its Archives (hosted by Dr Claire Rider, Archivist, College of St. George)
4.00Tea
4.30Prof. Michael Bennett (Tasmania): ‘England’s Ireland in the Fifteenth Century’
5.30-7.00Parallel sessions:
The Holy Roman Empire and its territories in the Fifteenth Century:
Benjamin Pope (Durham): ‘Identity, Discourse and Political Strategy: Margrave Albrecht Achilles and the Rhetoric of Antagonism between Town and Nobility in mid-fifteenth Century Upper Germany’
Prof. Christine Reinle (Giessen): ‘Hesse on the eve of the Reformation’
Dr Mark Whelan (Royal Holloway): ‘Poisoned bread, history books, and assassinations: Saving the Teutonic Order in the fifteenth century’
or
Private and Public Religion in Fifteenth-Century England
Prof. Virginia Davis (QMUL): ‘The Role of the Household Chaplain in the Later Middle Ages’
Dr Alastair Bennett (Royal Holloway): ‘Vox in choro, mens in foro’: distracted prayer in the fifteenth century’
Dr Helen E. Lunnon (UEA): ‘Art Patronage and Public Devotion in late-medieval Norwich’
7.15Bar
8.00Conference Dinner, Picture Gallery
Saturday, 3 September 2016
8.00-9.00Breakfast
9.00-10.15Parallel Sessions:
Literature in the Wars of the Roses
Kate Bicknell, (Southampton): ‘The Stanley Family Ballads’
Dr Joanna Laynesmith (Reading): ‘ “To please . . . dame Cecely that in Latyn hath little intellect”: Books and the Duchess’
or
The Ottoman diaspora
Robin Shields (Royal Holloway): ‘The illegitimate children of Carlo I Tocco’
Dr. Michael Carr (Edinburgh): ‘Fictional Correspondence between Islamic Rulers and the West’
10.15Coffee
11.00-12.15The ‘F’-Word: Crown, Nobility and Feudalism in 15th-Century England
Dr Matthew Holford (Oxford): ‘The Royal Prerogative and Feudal Society in the Fifteenth Century’
Dr James Ross (Winchester): ‘The English Aristocracy and Mesne Feudalism in the Fifteenth Century’
12.15Prof. Julia Boffey (QMUL): ‘ “Stories of divers regions and provinces”: digests of history and geography for late 15thcentury readers’
1.15Lunch
2.00Conference ends.