Each year the Seminar course in Medieval History holds a mini-conference to exhibit the works of our medieval history students. This year’s conference will take place on Friday, May from 9:30AM until 2PM in the Campbell Multipurpose Room, Campbell Hall on the Rose Hill Campus. Snacks and refreshments will be served. Come along, all are welcome!
Sessions and papers are as follows:
Panel I: From East to West 9:30-10:30
Meghan Kase – Conditrix Augusta: The Architectural Patronage of the Empress Theophano
Hannah Graham – Space and Demonstrations of Power in the Architecture of the Principality of Achaia
Andrew Kayaian – “Fullness of Power”: The Ecclesiology of Innocent III and Papal Relations with the Armenian Church and State
Panel II: Locality and the Sacred 10:30-11:30
Michael Lipari – “Where the Word of God Does Not Have Root”: The Archbishop of Reims and the Nobility of Champagne in the 13th Century
Jake Prescott – Neither North nor South: The Limousin as a Distinct Cultural Space c. 1220
Martin Nelson – “Such a Splendor of Brightness:” The Establishment of Knud Lavard’s Cult at Ringsted in Religious Narrative
Panel III: Locality and the Secular 12:00-1:00
Stephen Powell – The Pen is Mightier than the Earl’s Sword: The De Laude Cestrie and the Formation of an Independent Cestrian Political Identity
Andrew Thornbrooke – “A Power Above You”: Concepts of Autonomy in the Letters of Pope Innocent III and Guilhem VIII of Montpellier
Sally Gordon – Win the War – Buy Bonds! City-States, Princes, and Sovereign Debt in the Age of Edward I
Panel IV: Borders and Frontiers 1:00-2:00
Michael J. Sanders – Forgotten Roads to Jerusalem: The Iter per Hispaniam According to Ramon Llull and Garcías de Ayerbe
Joseph McKenna – On the Stage of Acre: The Players and Their Roles during the Siege
Rebecca Katharine-Fionna Bartels – Remembering the Truth: The Political Sacrality of Aleppo in 12th Century Islamic Historiography