MANCASS Easter Conference 2010
The Anglo-Saxons in their World
30th March - April 1st, 2010
Oxford Place, Victoria Place, Manchester M14 5RR
Conference Director - Professor Gale R. Owen-Crocker
gale.owencrocker@ntlworld.com
All enquiries should be addressed to:
Conference Administrator Dr Brian Schneider
brian.schneider11@yahoo.co.uk
The conference poster, delegate enrolment form and credit card payment form are available for download via the links below:
- conference flyer (PDF 53.7 KB)
- delegate enrolment form (PDF 15.7 KB)
- credit card payment form (PDF 36.9 KB)
Programme
Tuesday 20th March, 2010
10:00 - 11:00 Registration and coffee
11:00 - 12:00 The Christian world
- Chaired by Gale Owen-Crocker
- Erin Madeleine Sebo 'The Creation Riddle and Anglo Saxon Cosmology'
- Lucia Sinisi, University of Bari, Italy 'Beyond Rome: new seas, new shrines, new visions: the cult of the archangel Michael and the pilgrimage to Apulia'
- Elizabeth Coatsworth, Manchester Metropolitan University 'Makers and Users of Anglo-Saxon Sculpture in the West Riding of Yorkshire'
12:30 - 2:00 Buffet lunch
2:00 - 3:30 Home and neighbours
- Chaired by Alun Ford
- David Hill, University of Manchester 'The Anglo-Saxon view of the world: a cartographic approach'
- Mateusz Fafinski, Adam Mickieiwicz University, Poznan, Poland 'Diogenes seuir coloniae Eboracensis idemque moritex - trade and travel in York from the Roman to Anglo-Saxon times'
- Stuart Nels Rutten, 'Latin Education in the Anglo-Cornish World'
3:30 - 4:00 Tea
4:00 - 5:30 The Personal
- Chaired by Elizabeth Coatsworth
- Ian Riddler and Nicola Trzaska-Nartowski 'The complexities of the simple comb'
- Jennifer Neville 'Old English Riddles: the social world'
- Pirkko Koppinen 'Parenthood in Old English Poetry'
7:00 Dinner
8:15 Keynote Lecture
- Chaired by Donald Scragg
- Catherine Karkov 'The Postcolonial World of the Anglo-Saxons'
Wednesday 31st March 2010
9:30 - 11:00 Learning and the Church
- Chaired by Maria Cesario
- Sarah Tatum 'The English abroad: one way traffic?'
- Joyce Hill 'The laity and the liturgy'
- Don Scragg 'Eleventh-century scribes'
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee
11:30 - 12:30 Far away
- Chaired by Jennifer Neville
- Katherine Barker 'Serica, Saba and Saraceni; Aldhelm and his Byzantine connections'
- Laura Cañete Campos 'The Perception of Distant Lands in Aldhelm's and Eusebius' Riddles'
12:30 - 2:00 Buffet lunch
2:00 - 3:30 Myths and monsters
- Chaired by Donald Scragg.
- Maria Cesario 'The myth of Scylla in Anglo-Saxon England'
- Michael King 'Besette swinlicum: sources for the iconography of the Sutton Hoo shoulder-clasps'
- Alun Ford 'Speaking beyond the light: Wonders of the East and the Liber monstrorum .
3:30 - 4:00 Tea
4:00 - 5:30 What lies beneath
- Chaired by Joyce Hill
- Hans Sauer 'How the Anglo-Saxons expressed their emotions'
- Levi Roach Æthelred II and the World of Penance: A Reconsideration of Æthelred's Charters of Restitution
- Frank Battaglia 'Cannibalism in Beowulf and Older Germanic Religion'
6:30 Drinks reception
7:00 Conference dinner
Thursday 1st April 2010
9:30 - 11:00 The physical world
- Chaired by Stuart Rutten
- Jill Frederick 'Ships and the Sea in the Exeter Book Riddles'
- Debby Banham 'Leactun and orceard: horticulture in Anglo-Saxon life (and thought)'
- Michael Lewis 'The real worldof MS Junius 11'
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee
11:30 - 1:00 Bede's world
- Chaired by Hans Sauer
- Chris Grocock 'The sense (or absence) of place in Bede'
- Luca Larpi 'Bede's use of Gildas'
- Nicholas Higham 'Bede's vision of an English Britain'
1:00 - 2:30 Buffet lunch
2:30 - 3:30 Guest Lecture
- Chaired by Gale Owen-Crocker
- Kevin Leahy 'The Staffordshire Hoard'