MEMS SUMMER FESTIVAL 16 th -17 th June 2017 University of Kent, Canterbury Now in its third year, MEMS Summer Festival is a two-day celebration of all research in the medieval and early modern periods, including the study of literature, history, drama, art, politics, religion, and everyday culture of different nations from c. 400-1800. The festival, hosted at the University of Kent, is designed to bring together and create networks between scholars from a range of disciplines, academic schools, and institutions. MEMS Festival aims to be an informal space in which postgraduate students, early career researchers and academics can share ideas and foster conversations, and build a greater sense of community.
PROGRAMME OF EVENTS ~ Friday, 16 th June 2017 Grimond Building 09.15 09.45 10:00 Prof. Bernhard Klein Chair: Dr. Emily Guerry Dinah Wouters Han Tame Dr. Emily Corran Chair: Katie Toussaint- Jackson Cassandra Harrington Angela Websdale Alice Ball Chair: Evana Downes Anne Le Baigue & Avril Leach Dr. Ana Popova Dr. Sheila Sweetinburgh REGISTRATION & COFFEE SESSION 1: 10:00-11:20 OPENING REMARKS PANEL 1A: Morality and Meaning: Interpreting Medieval Religious Texts The miraculous catch of allegory: How Hildegard of Bingen creates allegory out of exegesis. The doctrine of damnation and the mouth of hell in the 12 th century. Better to let scandal arise than to relinquish the truth : The cases of conscience of the Masters of Paris in the thirteenth century. PANEL 1B: From Style to Symbolism: Mapping Gothic Art across the Channel Mapping and Meaning: The Foliate Head Keystones of Collège de Cluny The Forgotten Gothic Paintings of St Mary s Church, Faversham, Kent Stained Glass at Chartres Cathedral: the Prodigal Son and the Significance of the City PANEL 1C: Shaping the Landscape: Civic and Spiritual Place and Space Where streams of (living) water flow : The religious and civic significance of Archbishop Abbot s conduit in St Andrew s, Canterbury, 1603 to 1625. The Church as a Funerary Space: The Example of St. George at Pološko Religious women in the landscape: their roles in medieval Canterbury and its hinterland #MEMSFest17 1
11.20 COFFEE SESSION 2: 11:50-13:10 11:50 Chair: Dr. Barbara Bombi Dr. Nicky Tsougarakis Lydia Walker Dr. Jan Vandeburie Chair: Dr. Stuart Palmer Hannah Straw Abby Armstrong Isobel Cox-Jones Chair: Dr. Clare Wright Dr. Iman Sheeha Dr. Suzanna Ivanic Prof. Catherine Richardson PANEL 2A: Medieval Libraries: Text, History and New Approaches Re-examining the Franciscan Library of St Francis of Candida Sermons for Every Season: An Investigation of Namur, Grand Séminaire, MS 49 A Scabby Goat? A View of the Student Life in Paris c. 1200 PANEL 2B: Royal Representations: Monarchical Authority, Agency and Power A Merry Monarch, scandalous and poor': Charles II and the Performance of Kingship, 1660-1679. The childbearing of Eleanor of Provence The privy council of Mary Stewart, 1561-1565. PANEL 2C: Performing the Domestic: Space and Place in the Early Modern Period Look in the place where he was wont to sit/ His Blood! It is too manifest: The House as Extension of Identity in The Tragedy of Master Arden of Faversham (1592). Making and selling religious objects for domestic use in Counter- Reformation Prague. Writing a Day at Home in Early Modern England 13.10 LUNCH WORKSHOPS, 14:10-15:10 14.10 Dr. Marianne Wilson Karen Brayshaw, Joanna Baines & Rachel Dickinson Piety, profit and plunder: Deconstructing the Dissolution Special Collections & Archives Early Modern Mystery Trail #MEMSFest17 2
Dr. Jayne Wackett Rochester Cathedral Library: collections conservation workshop 1 WORKSHOPS, 15:10-16:10 15:10 Dr. Marianne Wilson Karen Brayshaw, Joanna Baines & Rachel Dickinson Dr. Jayne Wackett Piety, profit and plunder: Deconstructing the Dissolution (repeated) Special Collections & Archives Early Modern Mystery Trail (repeated) Rochester Cathedral Library: collections conservation workshop (continued) 16.10 QUIZ SHOW Would I Lie to you? Host: Miles Wilson 17:10 CLOSING REMARKS 18.30 20.00 DRINKS RECEPTION at the private garden of Canon Irvine, Canterbury Cathedral Precincts DINNER at The Parrot, a 14 th century listed building 1 This is a two-hour workshop. #MEMSFest17 3
Saturday, 17 th June 2017 Grimond building and Eastbridge Pilgrims Hospital 09.30 COFFEE SESSION 1: 10:00-11:20 10.00 11.20 Chair: Sophie Kelly Lucy Splarn Michael Gittins Catherine Heydon Chair: TBC Peter B. Lloyd Jack Newman Dr. Phil Slavin Chair: Daniella Gonzalez Benjamin Trowbridge Philippa Mesiano Stephen Griffin Chair: Jack Newman Rhiannon Sandy PANEL 3A: Medieval Reinventions: Art, Symbols and Text Thomas Becket riding a peacock Fighting in the Morgan Bible Picture Book: Patrons, weapons, and identification The origins of Purgatory in the works of Saint Augustine: A High Medieval Reinvention? PANEL 3B: Inter-Disciplinary Perspectives on History Berkeley contra Newton: The Repressed Metaphysics of Idealism Lie, Cheat, Steal, Kill, Win: Anger, Sadness, and Corruption in Fourteenth Century England Archaeological, Palaeo-Pathological, and Paleo-Environmental Reflections of Food Crises in the Early Fourteenth-Century British Isles PANEL 3C: Exploring the Unknown: Diplomatic Relations and Foreign Policy in Pre-Modern Europe Re-assessing the army raised for service in Portugal in 1381-2. Friars as papal and royal envoys: Diplomatic relations between King Henry III and Pope Alexander IV (1254 1261). A misfortune to be a stranger : diaspora, nobility and the marriage of Owen O Rourke and Catherine Diane de Beauvau. SESSION 2: 11:20-12:40 PANEL 4A: Behaviour and Political Agency in Medieval and Early Modern England Bad Reputation: Motivations for Controlling Apprentices Behaviour in Medieval England #MEMSFest17 4
Daniella Gonzalez Charlotte Young Chair: Dr. Helen Gittos Jirki Thibaut Dr. Emily Guerry Johan Belaen Petitions and Political Language: The Uses of Common Profit by Merchant Guilds in Late Fourteenth Century London Tracing women s agency during the English Civil War using sequestration records PANEL 4B: Tracing Steps: The Emergence and Transformation of Identity in the Middle Ages The negotiation of an ambiguous institutional identity In Saxony around the year 1000 A Medieval Odyssey: Retracing the travels of two Dominican diplomats, Jacques and André de Longjumeau The emergence of the religious orders and the transformation of monastic confraternities (c. 1090 c. 1150) 12.40 COFFEE 13:10 Dr. Emily Guerry, Dr. Jan Vandeburie, Dr. Nicky Tsougarakis ROUNDTABLE: 13:10-14:00 Publish or Perish? The truth (and many myths) about publishing your research 14:00 LUNCH 15:00 WALK TO EASTBRIDGE HOSPITAL WORKSHOPS, 15:30-16:30 15:30 16:30 The Chapel Amy Jeffs Undercroft Tim Beach Refectory Dr. Clare Wright The Chapel Amy Jeffs Pilgrim Souvenirs & Virtual Display: New futures for hidden histories Documenting Historical Sites: an Introduction to 3D Laser Scanning Moving Silence: Exploring Body, Speech and Space in the York Trial Plays 2 WORKSHOP, 16:30-17:30 Pilgrim Souvenirs & Virtual Display: New futures for hidden histories (repeated) 2 This is a two-hour workshop. #MEMSFest17 5
Undercroft Tim Beach Refectory Dr. Clare Wright Documenting Historical Sites: an Introduction to 3D Laser Scanning (repeated) Moving Silence: Exploring Body, Speech and Space in the York Trial Plays (continued) 17:30 TOUR OF EASTBRIDGE HOSPITAL 18:00 CLOSING REMARKS #MEMSFest17 6
WORKSHOPS ~ Friday, 16 th June 2017 Grimond Building Piety, profit and plunder: Deconstructing the Dissolution Dr. Marianne Wilson (The National Archives) This is a unique opportunity to explore the dissolution of the monasteries through analysis of facsimile documents from The National Archives. The 1530s were a turbulent period in English history. In November 1534, Henry VIII appointed himself as Supreme Head of the Church in England and separated from the Pope in Rome. This raised a question mark over the fate of almost 1,000 monastic communities, some of which had existed since the Anglo -Saxon era. Led by Dr Marianne Wilson (The National Archives), this workshop will offer the opportunity to explore this fascinating period in Reformation history, through interactive activities using a range of Latin and Middle English documents. No previous palaeography experience required. Rochester Cathedral Library: Collections Conservation Workshop Dr. Jayne Wackett (Rochester Cathedral) This workshop will outline the conservation issues coming out of working with the very varied collection making up the Rochester Cathedral Library. However, mostly this will be a very hands on experience and participants will be schooled in the art of making book 'shoes' and other basic preventive conservation practices. Special Collections & Archives Early Modern Mystery Trail Karen Brayshaw, Joanna Baines & Rachel Dickinson (University of Kent) Come and explore the early modern world in Special Collections & Archives! This workshop will guide you through our collections held here at Kent, ranging from Reformation Bibles and vellum-bound fencers to Shakespeare-themed cartoons and histories of Canterbury. You ll also be able to look at two of our newest acquisitions the 1586 edition of Holinshed s Chronicles, which are on loan to the University from the Marlowe society. Special Collections & Archives staff will be on hand the whole time to answer any questions you have and to introduce the material, so whether you ve visited us before or are new to the items we hold please do come along. #MEMSFest17 7
Saturday, 17th June 2017 Eastbridge Pilgrims Hospital Pilgrim Souvenirs & Virtual Display: New futures for hidden histories Amy Jeffs (Digital Pilgrim Project) This workshop will be led by the Digital Pilgrim Project, which is exploring how digital technologies can enhance the study and appreciation of medieval pilgrim souvenirs. The methodologies employed by the project include 3D modelling, GIS mapping and film. They are intended to be applicable to other large collections of like artefacts: miniature sculptures designed to be held and carried. At the same time, they are transforming the public accessibility of a prolific medieval object-type historically confined to closed storage. Come along to the workshop if you are keen to investigate medieval pilgrim souvenirs in the context of the Middle Ages, in terms of the display challenges they have posed to curators since the first collections were acquired by public museums and in terms of how digital technologies may benefit or hinder our relationship with the original. Documenting Historical Sites: an Introduction to 3D Laser Scanning Tim Beach This workshop offers an exploration of 3D laser scanning and its practical application in mapping historic buildings. The workshop will include a live demonstration of the technology in Eastbridge Pilgrims Hospital, showing how it can be used in GIS software to create photo realistic 3D representations of structures. Moving Silence: Exploring Body, Speech and Space in the York Trial Plays Dr. Clare Wright (University of Kent) The 15 th June 2017 is Corpus Christi day, so it seemed appropriate that this MEMS Festival workshop examine scenes from the famous York Corpus Christi Play s Passion sequence. In her study of silence and speech in the York Play, Alexandra Johnston highlights the thematic focus on the spoken word during the central trial plays and the importance of the moment when Christ falls silent. 3 But silence in performance doesn t mean absence and, as Jill Stevenson and others have observed, Christ, though still and vocally silent [...] is neither dramatically absent nor theatrically silent. 4 This workshop will explore Stevenson s theory and the possible effects such moving silence might produce. We will consider, firstly, what the extant playtexts might suggest about Christ s bodily presence in these scenes and how contemporary iconography might contribute to our interpretation before workshopping a staged reading of one of the extracts, thinking about the possible effects of silence and sound, stillness and movement. The workshop will take place in the atmospheric Eastbridge Hospital of St Thomas the Martyr, and so we will also take the opportunity to ponder how 3 His langage is lorne : The Silent Centre of the York Cycle, Early Theatre 3 (2000): 185-95. 4 Jill Stevenson, Performance, Cognitive Theory and Devotional Culture, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), p. 120. #MEMSFest17 8
site and space might affect, amplify, or resonate with the possible meanings generated by performance. #MEMSFest17 9