Tag: YAS Medieval Section

Saturday 13th December at 2pm

The next meeting is on 13th December.  This will be our Christmas meeting and fuddle, so you are welcome to bring along a small donation to the food/drink after the presentation.

The speaker will be Graham Mitchell of the Richard III Society, on Richard, the Northern King.

The meeting will be held in the St. George’s Centre,  Great George Street, Leeds.  Free parking is usually available on the other side of the Inner Ring Road behind the Joseph’s Well complex.  If approaching from Burley Rd, take first right – Duncombe St, parking is on the left.

Hopefully it will also be on Zoom so contact Jo for the link if you haven’t already receive it.

Saturday 8th November at 2pm on Zoom

This weeks talk is by Dr Marta Cobb, University of Leeds, and her subject is ‘
Margery Kempe in Yorkshire‘.

If you are not a member and would like to attend then you  will need to contact Jo by the 7th.

The address to use is jo.heronmedsection@gmail.com

Please note that you do NOT have to have a zoom account to join the meeting. When you log in using the link, you will be asked if you have an account or prefer to join using your browser. If need be, you can join by using the Meeting ID and passcode.

Contact Jo if you need the link.

Saturday 11th October at 2pm on Zoom

Our next meeting will be Julia Hewgill speaking on ‘Border reivers: from warfare, blood and violence to custom, laws and ballads’.  The speaker has sent in the following; 

The latter Middle Ages saw a transition from the Scottish Wars of Independence to intermittent cross border hostility and a sustained pattern of criminal activities that encompassed all levels of society on both sides of the border.  Laws were created to settle disputes and deal with cross-border crime that led to reliance on a warden system, a unique form of architecture, the mother of all curses and a selection of ballads that celebrate the violence and feuds of the resulting society.

If you are not a member and would like to attend then you  will need to contact Jo by the 10th.

The address to use is jo.heronmedsection@gmail.com

Please note that you do NOT have to have a zoom account to join the meeting. When you log in using the link, you will be asked if you have an account or prefer to join using your browser. If need be, you can join by using the Meeting ID and passcode.

Contact Jo if you need the link.

Saturday 5th April, 2025 at 2pm on Zoom

Our next meeting will be Alex Harvey, speaking about the Vikings in Yorkshire. This is a topic we have not really looked at for a couple of years, so it will be useful to get an update on the progress of research.

If you are not a member and would like to attend then you also will need to contact Jo by the 4th.

The address to use is jo.heronmedsection@gmail.com

Please note that you do NOT have to have a zoom account to join the meeting. When you log in using the link, you will be asked if you have an account or prefer to join using your browser. If need be, you can join by using the Meeting ID and passcode.

Contact Jo if you need the link.

Medieval Section lecture on Saturday 8th March, 2025 at 2pm on Zoom

Adam Cook will be speaking on Identity In Yorkshire & Northumberland, 1066-1216.

If you are not a member and would like to attend then you also will need to contact Jo by the 7th.

The address to use is jo.heronmedsection@gmail.com

Please note that you do NOT have to have a zoom account to join the meeting. When you log in using the link, you will be asked if you have an account or prefer to join using your browser. If need be, you can join by using the Meeting ID and passcode.

Contact Jo if you need the link.

Medieval Section meeting on Saturday 11th May, 2024 at 2pm on Zoom

This month the speaker will be Dr Jane Richardson talking about the excavations and post-excavation results from the recently-excavated site at Garforth.

This will be followed by the section AGM.

Members on the mailing list will already have the link so if you haven’t received the mail first check your junk mail box and if it isn’t there contact Jo.

If you are not a member and would like to attend then you also will need to contact Jo by the 10th.

The address to use is jo.heronmedsection@gmail.com

Medieval Section meeting on Saturday 9th March 2024 at 2pm on Zoom

Kate Giles will be talking about ‘Medieval Wall paintings at Pickering Church’.

Members on the mailing list will already have the link so if you haven’t received the mail first check your junk mail box and if it isn’t there contact Jo.

If you are not a member and would like to attend then you also will need to contact Jo by the 8th.

The address to use is jo.heronmedsection@gmail.com

Medieval Section Meeting on Saturday 10th February at 2pm

Our speaker, John Jenkins, will be talking about the work done at York’s Guildhall.

Members on the mailing list will already have the link so if you haven’t received the mail first check your junk mail box and if it isn’t there contact Jo.

If you are not a member and would like to attend then you also will need to contact Jo by the 9th.

The address to use is jo.heronmedsection@gmail.com

Medieval Section Meeting on Saturday 9th December at 2pm

This Saturday we have Hanna Vorholt talking about Illuminated manuscripts,

This will be a hybrid meeting at Swarthmore if you want to attend in person. If you would like to bring along something consumable to share with other members, it would be welcome, and members can collect their copy of the 2022 Medieval Yorkshire at the same time.

To attend on Zoom mail Jo as usual.

Medieval Section meeting on Saturday 15th April, 2023 at 2pm on Zoom – Followed by the AGM

Remembering St Hilda in the Later Middle Ages a talk by Christiane Kroebel (Associate Fellow, Institute of Historical Research, and curator of Whitby Museum’s Abbey collection)

Abstract
Medieval Section members may recall that I spoke about St Hilda in 2017. This is the result after several years of further research into this well-known figure from early medieval England but how she was regarded in the later Middle Ages is considered here. After the Norman Conquest, she became the focus of renewed interest which resulted in the foundation of a Benedictine monastery at Whitby. However, St Hilda’s appeal can be seen elsewhere and is traced through church dedications and secular and monastic texts. Uncovering the history of these churches found a small number of people who promoted her memorialization after the Conquest and their influence affected where her name is found in locations in Yorkshire and northern England. A network of secular landholders as patrons can be detected. It seems that in later centuries devotion to her never reached great popularity nevertheless she had her following amongst the laity and in diverse monastic foundations. By the fourteenth century, two miracles became popular whose origin cannot be firmly established as coming from Whitby but resonated locally.

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