Medieval History and Archaeology of Yorkshire
2 p.m. at Swarthmore
Our speaker will be William Flynn, and the topic is Medieval Music for Advent and Christmas.
We will be into Advent, and approaching Christmas, so this meeting will be our Christmas ‘fuddle’. All welcome, and hopefully you will feel, able to bring along some consumable to join in the festivities.
2 p.m. at Swarthmore
Kate Giles on Stratford on Avon, Shakespeare’s Guildhall
2pm at Swarthmore
Our speaker will be Dr Kate Giles, from the University of York
Shakespeare’s Guildhall, Stratford upon Avon
In this lecture, Kate will speak about her recent project at Stratford upon Avon, where she has been researching the history and archaeology of a complex of fifteenth century guild buildings, subsequently converted into Shakespeare’s School and recently the subject of a £1.4 million HLF project to open the building up to the public. Come and find out about Shakespeare’s medieval inheritance and hopefully be encouraged to visit the building yourself.
2pm at Swarthmore.
John Collis on The death and rebirth of the Celts: from the Antique world to the Renaissance
The first lecture will take place on Tuesday, 1 October at 17.30, and will be given by Kathryn Rudy (Professor of Art History, University of St Andrews) on ‘Documentary Photography of Medieval Manuscripts and Its Embedded Assumptions’. The venue will be the Nathan Bodington Council Chamber on the first floor of the Parkinson Building, and following the lecture there will be a drinks reception in the Council Antechamber to which everybody is welcome to attend.
Kathryn Rudy is a manuscript historian at the University of St Andrews. She is best known for her forensic approach to medieval books, and has pioneered the use of the densitometer to measure the grime that original readers deposited in their books. She is currently developing ways to track and measure user response of late medieval manuscripts. More details can be found at < https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/art-history/people/kmr7>.
2019
October 12th John Collis on The death and rebirth of the Celts: from the Antique world to the Renaissance
November 9th Kate Giles on Stratford on Avon, Shakespeares Guildhall
December 14th William Flynn on Medieval Music for Advent and Christmas
2020
January 11th Mike Braddick on Fire & Fury – the English Civil war
February 8th Victoria Yuskaitis Anchorites, Archaeology, and Antiquarians: A New Archaeological Approach in Anchorite Studies
March 14th Peter Addyman Medieval York, the Historic Towns Atlas/ Merchant Adventurers of York/Yorkshire
April 4th Alan Murray Medieval warfare, chivalry
May 9th Martin Richards Archaeogenetics & human ancestry
John Moreland will be speaking on the recent work at Sheffield Castle.
Saturday 13th April, 2pm at Swarthmore
This will be followed by the Annual General Meeting of the Section.
Saturday 9th March 2019, 2.00 pm at Swarthmore
John Adams and Stuart Forbes: Syon House archaeology, library, the Herbal, and medical practices
The Syon Abbey Herbal, written by their last known librarian, was also the last herbal to be compiled before the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1539, and gives an insight to the common ailments, their treatment, and healthcare in general in the Tudor period. The library at Syon, almost completely lost, was one of the best in Europe, and contained a wide range of up to date printed medical and astrological-medical books unavailable elsewhere in Britain, as well as rare medical texts in English.
The speakers will discuss the archaeology of the site as well as the Herbal.
Tuesday 19 February 2019 at 17:30
‘Documenting Multiculturalism in Norman Sicily’ presented by Jeremy Johns (University of Oxford)
On Saturday 9th February Paul Hardwick will be talking about “Animal iconography on misericords”
The main focus of Pauls research is upon English misericords in their devotional contexts. His monograph, English Medieval Misericords: The Margins of Meaning, was published by Boydell in 2011, with a paperback edition following in 2013.
The coffee bar will be open this week.
We will be holding the Annual General Meeting on Saturday 13th April, following the lecture. Papers will be sent out nearer to the date.
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