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| Wednesday 1
August |
| 4:00 |
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Arrival at Gregynog |
| 6:00 |
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Opening reception for conference
delegates and members of the Powysland Club. The reception is
generously sponsored by Boydell & Brewer |
| 7:00 |
|
R. Allen Brown Memorial Lecture:
Huw Pryce (University of Wales, Bangor), ‘The Normans in Welsh
History’ |
| 8:15 |
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Dinner |
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Thursday 2 August |
| 8:30 |
|
Breakfast |
| 9:30 |
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Jeffrey West (London), ‘A taste
for the Antique? Henry of Blois and the arts’ |
| 10:45 |
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Coffee |
| 11:15 |
|
Laura Ashe (Queen Mary, University
of London), ‘William the Marshal, Lancelot, and the ideologies of
chivalry’ |
| 1:00 |
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Lunch |
| 1:45 |
|
Tour A of Gwasg Gregynog |
| 2:30 |
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Lisa Reilly (University of
Virginia), ‘The invention of tradition in Norman culture’ |
| 4:00 |
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Tea and Tour B of Gwasg
Gregynog |
| 5:00 |
|
Rob Jones (Cardiff University),
‘Identifying the warrior on the pre-heraldic battlefield’ |
| 7:00 |
|
Dinner |
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| Friday
3 August |
| 8:00 |
|
Breakfast |
| 9:15 |
|
Depart for excursion to Shrewsbury
(led by Nigel Baker), Wigmore (led by Carol Cragoe and Chris Lewis),
and Pipe Aston (led by Sally Harvey). Lunch at the Riverside Inn,
Aymestrey |
| 8:00 |
|
Dinner |
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Saturday 4 August |
| 8:30 |
|
Breakfast |
| 9:30 |
|
Paul Oldfield (Manchester
Metropolitan University), ‘St Nicholas the pilgrim: shedding light
on the city of Trani’ |
| 10:45 |
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Coffee |
| 11:15 |
|
Natasha Hodgson (Prosopography of
Anglo-Saxon England, University of Cambridge), ‘Reinventing Normans
as Crusaders? Fame, shame, and crusade ideology in Ralph of Caen’s
Gesta Tancredi |
| 1:00 |
|
Lunch |
| 2:30 |
|
Judith Everard (Acta of the
Plantagenets, University of Cambridge),
‘ “Sicut carta . . . testatur”: confirmation of laymen’s charters in
the charters of Henry II’ |
| 4:00 |
|
Tea |
| 4:30 |
|
Charles Insley (Canterbury Christ
Church University), ‘Kings, lords, charters, and the political
culture of twelfth-century Wales’ |
| 7:00 |
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Dinner |
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| Sunday
5 August |
| 8:30 |
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Breakfast |
| 9:30 |
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Frederick Suppe (Ball State
University), ‘Interpreter families and Anglo-Welsh relations in the
Shropshire-Powys Marches in the twelfth century’ |
| 10:45 |
|
Coffee |
| 11:15 |
|
David Stephenson (University of
Wales, Bangor), ‘The resurgence of Powys in the late eleventh and
early twelfth century’ |
| 1:00 |
|
Linch |
| 2:00 |
|
Depart for excursion to Meifod and
Mathrafal, the clas and llys of the princes of Powys.
Led by David Stephenson |
| 7:00 |
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Dinner |
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| Monday
6 August |
| 8:30 |
|
Breakfast |
| 9:30 |
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John Reuben Davies (University of
Edinburgh), ‘Some aspects of Church reform in Norman Wales’ |
| 10:45 |
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Coffee |
| 11:15 |
|
Julia Barrow (University of
Nottingham), ‘Grades of ordination and clerical careers, c. 900–c.
1200’ |
| 1:00 |
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Lunch |
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Close of conference |
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