Seminars
Advance notice:
The annual joint meeting of MANCASS and the Manchester Medieval Society will take place on Thursday 3 April 2014 in the Historic Reading Room, John Rylands Libray Deansgate at 6pm. The speaker will be Dr Kevin Leahy of the Portable Antiquities Scheme, who will lecture on 'The Staffordshire Hoard'.
Programme 2012 - 13
Monday 8th October 2012, 5:00 p.m.
Faye Simpson, ManchesterMetropolitanUniversity: ‘An Anglo-Saxon woman – and a cow’.
Monday 12 November 2012, 5p.m.
Peter Darby, University of Leicester, ‘Bede’s history of the future’.
Monday 11 February 2013, 5p.m.
Helen Gittos, University of Kent, ‘The Languages of the Liturgy in Medieval England’.
Monday 4 March 20136pm. The Toller Lecture: Leslie Webster, formerly of the BritishMuseum.
The Historic Reading Room, John Rylands Library, Deansgate Manchester.
Followed by a FREE wine reception in the Foyer of the Building.
Monday 4 March 2013, 6p.m.
The Toller Lecture: Leslie Webster, formerly of the BritishMuseum.
The Historic Reading Room, John Rylands Library, Deansgate Manchester.
Followed by a FREE wine reception in the Foyer of the Building.
Thursday 21 March 2013, 6pm. Joint Meeting with Manchester Medieval Society.
Hannah Cobb, University of Manchester 'The Viking Ship from Arnamurchan, Scotland’, The Historic Reading Room, John Rylands Library, Deansgate, Manchester.
Programme 2011 - 12
Monday 7 November 2011, 5 pm, The Poetry Centre
Katrin Thier, of the Oxford English Dictionary, will speak on ‘Logboats and Longships – Anglo-Saxon watercraft’.
Monday 5 December 2011, 5pm, The Poetry Centre
Michael Hare, of the University of Bristol, will speak on ‘Recent research at the major Mercian minster of St Mary, Deerhurst’.
Monday 20 February, 2012, 5pm, The Poetry Centre
Philip Shaw, University of Leicester will speak on ‘How was Old English spelling devised? The evidence of pre-ninth-century charters’.
The MANCASS Postgraduate Conference will be held on Monday-Tuesday 5-6 March 2012 at the John Rylands Library, Deansgate Building, on the theme of ‘Anglo-Saxon Domesticity’, with gueast Speaker Professor Jonathan Wilcox, University of Iowa. The organizer is Christina Petty cpetty_us@yahoo.com (that’s cpetty underscore us etc). Submissions of proposed papers by 30 November 2011.
The 2012 Toller Lecture will be held on 5 March 2012 at 6pm in The Historic Library, John Rylands University Library, Deansgate Building.
Eamonn O'Carragain, of the University of Cork, will speak on ‘Vercelli as a context for The Dream of the Rood’.
The lecture will be followed by a FREE wine reception in the Foyer of the Deansgate Library and dinner at Pestos on Deansgate. To book a place at dinner email gale.owencrocker @ntlworld.com before Monday 27 February 2012. Cost about £25.
22 March 2012 MANCASS/Medieval Society Soc/Public Lecture by John Gillis on a newly discovered Insular Gospel Book from Feddan Moor. The Historic Library, John Rylands University Library, Deansgate Building, 6pm.
28-29 March Easter Colloquium
Day ONE 'Anglo-Saxon Authorship' Directed by Dr Martin Ryan, alhfrith@hotmail.com at The John Rylands Library Deansgate Building
and Day TWO ‘The Battle of Chester’ Directed by Bryan Sitch
Bryan.sitch@manchester.ac.uk at The Manchester Museum phone 0161-306-1582.
Paper submissions to the appropriate Director by 15 December 2011.
7-8 June Symposium in memory of Dr David Hill, to be held in the John Rylands Library, Deansgate Building. The provisional title is ‘Towns, Topography, Tapestry’ reflecting David’s research interests. Papers are being invited from scholars who were close to David, but if any other MANCASS supporters would like to offer papers, submissions are welcome. Please send a title and 200-word synopsis to gale.owencrocker@ntlworld.com by 1 December 2011.