England in the Age of the Black Death
Conference Programme (provisional)
Saturday 8 August, 2009
2.00-3.30: TRADE AND INDUSTRY
Richard Britnell, "The bishop of Durham's revenues from coal mining, 1400-1500"
3.30-4.00 COFFEE
4.00-5.30: MARKETS AND FAIRS
Introduction and then discussion of two pre-circulated papers:
James Davies, "Selling food and drink in the aftermath of the Black Death"
John Lee: "Fairs in late medieval England"
6.00-7.30 Evening meal: those attending the conference can make their own arrangement to obtain their Saturday evening meal in a local pub or restaurant.
7.30-9.00: AGRICULTURE
Bruce Campbell, "Crop yields on English demesnes after the Black Death"
Sunday 9 August
BREAKFAST
10-11.30: AGRICULTURE:
Introduction and then discussion of two pre-circulated papers:
Phillipp Schofield, "The Arundell estates in fifteenth-century Cornwall".
Martin Stephenson, "Risk and capital formation on the great estates".
11.30-12.00: COFFEE
12.00-1.00: MANORIAL SOURCES
Erin McGibbon Smith, "Reflections of reality in the manor court: Sutton in the Isle, 1308-91".
1.00-2.00 LUNCH
2.00-4.00: THE BRENNER DEBATE
Robert Brenner, "The Brenner debate, thirty years on".
4.00-5.30: ECONOMIC RESPONSES TO THE BLACK DEATH
David Stone: "The Black Death and its aftermath: Hinderclay, 1348-64".
6.00: Offical Conference Dinner at Corpus Christ College.
Monday 10 August
9.30-11.30: DEMOGRAPHY
Introduction and discussion of three pre-circulated papers:
Ole Benedictow, "New perspectives in medieval demography"
Maryanne Kowaleski, "The demography of coastal communities in medieval England"
Richard Smith, "Putting Benedictine monks in context: mortality in England, 1349-1540"
11.30: COFFEE
12.00: John Munro, "From Gutsherrschaft to Grundherrschaft in late medieval England: monetary and fiscal factors in the decline of manorial demesne farming, 1370-1420".
1.00: CONFERENCE CLOSES