Medieval Section of the Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society

Following the directive from HMG, we are cancelling the April meeting, but awaiting developments for the May meeting.

We hope you are all keeping well and watch this space for notification if we do need to cancel the meeting.

Best wishes and keep safe

2pm at Swarthmore

This month our speaker is Peter Addyman who will be talking about Medieval York, the Historic Towns Atlas/ Merchant Adventurers of York/Yorkshire.

Followed by the AGM

2 pm at Swarthmore

Our speaker this month is Victoria Yuskaitis who will be talking about Anchorites, Archaeology, and Antiquarians: A New Archaeological Approach in Anchorite Studies.

2.00 pm.  at Swarthmore

Our speaker will be Professor Michael Braddick from Sheffield University, and his topic is ‘Fire and Fury – the English Civil war’.

If you need to pay Section subscriptions – you can let our Treasurer, Sue Alexander, have your £6.00 (YAHS member) or £16 (Section only member) on the day.  If you have already paid through the YAHS, thank you for your support.

If you have had a change of address, or email, please let our Secretary, Jo Heron, know at the meeting, so we can keep you up to date with news and information.

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.

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>.