2nd-3rd June, 2017
Kings Manor, University of York
Day 1: 2nd June
10.00-10.25 K/G33 Registration and Coffee
10.25 K133 Opening Remarks
Session 1: 10.30-12.00 Chair: Lyndsey Smith
- Liz Alexander (University of York)‘A Most Curious and Ancient Churchyard Cross’: Scholarly Definition and the Masham Column
- Rachel Fletcher (University of Glasgow) “A Guide in Lands Unknown”: William Somner’s dictionary of Old English
- Harriet Sonne de Torrens (University of Toronto)German Innovation and Nationalism: The Case of the Freckenhorst Font and the Proposed Origins of the Romanesque in Westphalia
Lunch: 12.00-1.30
Session 2: 1.30-3.00 Chair: Liz Alexander
- Laura Harrison (University of Edinburgh)‘At best eccentric’: David Steuart Erskine and antiquarian interest in the Scottish Wars of Independence
- Jane Hawkes (University of York) Re-drawing the Past: Establishing the Visualisation of Anglo-Saxon Sculpture
- Aideen Ireland (National Archives of Ireland, retired) Recovering the Past in mid nineteenth-century Kilkenny as depicted by the Kilkenny Archaeological Society
Coffee Break: 3.00-3.30
Session 3: 3.30-4.30 Chair: TBC
- Michael Bintley (Canterbury Christ Church University) Embracing and Effacing Romans and Britons in Early Medieval England
- Miguel A. Torrens (University of Toronto) On the backs of giants: the origins of antiquarianism in Britain, from Gildas Bandonicus to The Gentleman’s Magazine
Comfort Break: 4.30-4.45
Keynote Lecture, Chair: TBC
Rosemary Sweet (University of Leicester)
Domesticating the Anglo-Saxons, c. 1750-1850
Drinks Reception: 5.45pm-7pm
Day Two, 3 June 2017
Session 1: 10.00-11.00 Chair: Liz Alexander
- Lyndsey Smith (University of York)Anglo-Saxon Ivories in Print and on Display: Historiography, Collection, Exhibition and Apathy
- Agnese Scarpa (Università Ca’ Foscari) Roma – Museo dell’Alto Medioevo
Coffee: 11.00-11.30
Session 2: 11.30-1.00 Chair: Lyndsey Smith
- Elisa Foster (Henry Moore Institute) The Virgin of Walsingham was a Black Madonna and Other ‘Alternative Facts’: Uncovering the history of a lost pilgrimage statue
- Malwina Wiśniewska and Paulina Zagórska, (Adam Mickiewicz University) Forged texts as a source for linguistic research on the example of 12th century English documents
- Alice Blackwell and Martin Goldberg (National Museum of Scotland) Title TBC
Lunch: 1.00-2.30
Session 3: 2.30-4.00 Chair: Liz Alexander
- Henrik Widmark (Uppsala University) From debris to treasures of the Church: The recovery and resurrection of medieval sculpture in Swedish parish churches 1910-1927
- Megan Henvey (University of York) Crossing Borders: Re-assessing the Biographies of the High Crosses in (Northern) Ireland
- Heidi Stoner (University of York) The Isle of Man, entire of itself: The history of the Manx Crosses
4.00-4.15 Closing Remarks