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List of Speakers

Alphabetical List of Speakers

Ailes, Marianne (Reading University), ‘“Sweeter than the love of a woman”: The Friendship of Kaerdin and Tristan in Thomas’s Version of the Tristan Legend’ (19/05/2000)

Archer, Rowena E. (Brasenose College and Christchurch, Oxford), ‘Alice Chaucer, Duchess of Suffolk (d. 1475) and her Books’ (24/02/2007)

Armour, Peter (Royal Holloway), ‘Poets and Friends in Dante’s Florence’ (19/05/2000)

Arnold, John (Birkbeck College, London), ‘Lay Belief and Unbelief’ (20/11/2004)

Ashe, Laura (Queen Mary, University of London), ‘William the Marshal, Lancelot and the Perils of Chivalrous Lordship’ (18/11/2006)

Bailey, Mark (Corpus Christi, Cambridge), ‘Rabbit Rearing in Medieval East Anglia’ (17/05/1997)

Bale, Anthony (Birkbeck College, University of London), ‘The Prison of Christ and the Red Mountain Chapel: Rebuilding Jerusalem in the Later Middle Ages’ (21/11/2009)

Balfour, Mark (RHUL), ‘Centaurs and Devils: Dante’s Infernal Soldiery’ (09/11/1996)

Balzaretti, Ross (Nottingham), ‘Masculinities in Early Medieval Europe’ (18/05/2001)

Balzaretti, Ross (University of Nottingham), ‘Fatherhood in Late-Lombard Italy’ (17/11/2007)

Banham, Debbie (Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, University of Cambridge), ‘Seedtime and Harvest: The Annual Cycle in Anglo-Saxon Life and Thought’ (21/02/2009)

Barron, Caroline (Royal Holloway), ‘Representations of St Zita/Sitha in Medieval England’ (24/02/2007)

Bates, Linda R. (Trinity Hall, Cambridge), ‘The Journey and the Stable: Aspects of Middle English Nativity Narratives’ (19/04/2008)

Batson, Hannah (Royal Holloway), ‘The Law of Nature in Middle English Literature: A Case Study’ (25/06/2005)

Batt, Catherine (Leeds), ‘Henry, Duke of Lancaster’s Book of Holy Medicines: A Medieval Essay in Abjection?’ (17/05/2002)

Batt, Catherine (Leeds), ‘Malory’s Launcelot: Masculinity in Translation’ (05/2001)

Bautista, Francisco (Queen Mary, University of London), ‘Historiography and Court during the Reign of Alfonso the Learned (1252-84)’ (25/02/2006)

Baxter, Ron (Courtauld Institute), ‘Bestiaries’ (17/05/1997)

Bell, Adrian (Reading), ‘An Anatomy of a Campaign: The Earl of Arundel’s Expeditions of 1387 and 1388’ (08/02/1997)

Bennett, Matthew (Royal Military Academy, Sandford), ‘The Battle of Maldon: Warrior Mythmaking’ (08/02/1997)

Bennett, Matthew (Sandhurst), ‘A Celebration of Death?: Agincourt, 1415’ (24/11/2001)

Berger, Tom (School of Celtic Studies, D.IA.S.), ‘The End-Point of Literacy: A Middle-Irish Poem Composed from other Written Poems’ (24/02/2001)

Black, Kirsty (Goldsmiths College, University of London), ‘Displaced Chronicle: A Modernist Reworking of Medieval Historiography’ (12/04/2007)

Blamires, Alcuin (Goldsmith’s, University of London), ‘“Sisterhood”, the Poor Relation of “Brotherhood” in Medieval Writings? Ipomadon as Case-Study’ (24/02/2007)

Blud, Vicki (King’s College, London), ‘Sex and the City: Female Exile and Urban Wilderness’ (12/04/2007)

Bolton, Jim (Institute of Historical Research), ‘Strangers in the City: The Aliens in Fifteenth-Century London’ (22/05/1999)

Bolton, Jim (QMW), ‘Rural Poverty in late Thirteenth-Century England’ (11/02/1995)

Bovey, Alixe (Dept. of Manuscripts, British Library), ‘Titles, Captions and Commentaries: Reading Pictorial Narrative in Fourteenth-Century Manuscripts’ (16/02/2002)

Boynton, Susan (Columbia University), ‘Young Singers in Medieval Monasteries and Cathedrals’ (22/11/2008)

Briggs, Chris (Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge), ‘The seasons and the later medieval English village’ (21/02/2009)

Brown, Reva (Northampton), ‘The Jewish Minority in Medieval England, 1066-1290’ (22/05/1999)

Burch, Sally (UCL), ‘Love and Law in Amadas et Ydoine’ (14/02/2004)

Burnett, Charles (Warburg Institute), ‘Talismans: Magic or Science?’ (19/11/94)

Burt, Jonathan (Animal Studies Group, UK), ‘An Obsession with Boundaries: The Current Status of Animal Studies’ (26/02/2005)

Cadilhac, Muriel (St. John’s College, Cambridge), ‘Exhausting Friendship: A Lacanian Reading of the Moral Ambiguities in Amis and Amiloun’ (25/06/2005)

Callow, Chris (Birmingham University), ‘Landscape and Society in a Region of Medieval Iceland’ (11/11/2000)

Campbell, Emma (King’s College, London), ‘Boys Won’t be Boys: Sainthood and Masculinity in the Vie de Saint Alexis’ (05/2001)

Cavill, Paul (Nottingham University), ‘Violence in Anglo-Saxon Saint’s Lives’ (24/11/2001)

Chandler, Jed (Aberystwyth), ‘Male Despite Anatomy: Medieval Transgenderism’ (22/05/1999)

Cheeseman, Clive (College of Arms), ‘Fame and the Bearing of Arms in the Later Middle Ages’ (05/02/2000)

Chronopoulos, Tina (King’s College, London), ‘Who is Saying What? The Literary Sources in the Passion of St Katherine of Alexandria’ (25/06/2005)

Clanchy, Michael (Institute of Historical Research), ‘Establishing the Authenticity of Abelard and Heloise’ (17/05/2002)

Clanchy, Michael (Institute of Historical Research), ‘How Boys Learned to Read and Write’ (22/11/2008)

Clanchy, Michael (Institute of Historical Research), ‘Mary taking the Child Jesus to School’ (15/02/2003)

Clanchy, Michael (Institute of Historical Research), ‘Memory and Writing in the Life and Work of Abelard’ (10/02/1996)

Clanchy, Michael (Institute of Historical Research), ‘The Concern of Abelard and Heloise for his Reputation’ (18/11/2006)

Clanchy, Michael (Institute of Historical Research), ‘The Significance of Abelard’s Sic et Non in the History of Scholarship’ (13/02/1999)

Clark, John (Museum of London), ‘The Archaeology of the Medieval Horse’ (17/05/1997)

Clarke, Catherine (King’s College, London), ‘Landscape and Text in the Old English Guthlac A’ (11/11/2000)

Cohen, Rip (King’s College, London), ‘Foreplay and Fairplay in the Cantigas d’Amigo’ (25/02/2006)

Cohn, Samuel (Brandeis, Boston), ‘The Myth of Mounting Poverty in Late Medieval Florence’ (11/02/1995)

Cooper, Helen (University College, Oxford), ‘Title unknown’ (05/02/2000)

Corona, Gabrielle (Centre for Medieval Studies, York), ‘Sin’s in the Emotions: Aelfric’s Affective Rhetoric in the Lives of Saints’ (19/11/2005)

Cox, Alyson (Emmanuel College, Cambridge), ‘Þis deade lif: The Voyage of the Seafarer’s Soul’ (09/11/1996)

Creighton, Oliver (Exeter University), ‘Castles in the Landscape: Expressions of Power in Medieval England’ (11/11/2000)

Croft, Justin (Kent), ‘Literacy and Scholarship in the English Medieval Town’ (13/02/1999)

Crossley-Holland, Nicole (University of Wales), ‘Church Laws and the Diets of Medieval French and Russian Christians’ (16/11/2002)

Cubitt, Katy (Centre for Medieval Studies, York), ‘Memory and Narrative in the Cult of Anglo-Saxon Saints’ (10/02/1996)

de Saintonge, Rebecca (Birkbeck), ‘Masculine bodies, feminine souls: The effects of gender fragmentation on spiritual men in the later middle ages, based on the letters of the Swedish Dominican, Peter of Dacia (d.1289)’ (05/2001)

Dean, Trevor (University of Surrey), ‘Women and Violence in Late-Medieval Italy and Beyond’ (24/11/2001)

Denley, Marie (King’s College London), ‘Dead Funny: The Comic in Mortality Literature’ (11/05/1996)

Deyermond, Alan (QMW), ‘The Woven Text: Analogues for Old French Chansons de Toile’ (16/02/2002)

Dresvina, Juliana (Magdalene College, Cambridge), ‘A Virgin Martyr as an Example for Male Devotees: The Case of St Margaret of Antioch’ (19/11/2005)

Dyas, Dee (Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York), ‘The Communities of Pilgrimage’ (17/05/2003)

Edwards, Cyril (Oxford), ‘The Merseburg Charms: Context, Conjecture, and Function’ (19/11/94)

Egan, Geoff (Museum of London), ‘Medieval Playthings: Some Recent Discoveries from London’ (15/02/2003)

Eley, Penny (University of Sheffield), ‘The Courtly Other, based on the “fils à villain” theme in Partonopeus de Blois’ (25/02/2006)

Ellis, Steve (Birmingham University), ‘Chaucer’s Fame in the Twentieth Centuries’ (05/02/2000)

Fisher, Andrew (Hull), ‘The Rewards of Military Service in the Reign of King John’ (08/02/1997)

Fisher, John (The Mary Rose Information Group), ‘The King’s Ship Mary Rose: A Glimpse into the Lives of Ordinary Shipfolk’ (14/02/1998)

Fletcher, Chris (Pembroke College, Cambridge), ‘Passion and Politics in the Courts of England and France, c.1380-c.1420’ (25/02/2006)

Fogle, Lauren (Royal Holloway), ‘The Domus Conversorum in the Later Middle Ages’ (25/06/2005)

Friel, Ian (Littlehampton Museum), ‘Ships and Shipbuilding in England from the Late Thirteenth to the Early Sixteenth Centuries’ (14/02/1998)

Galloway, Penny (Bristol University), ‘The Beguines’ (08/11/1998)

Ganz, David (King’s College, London), ‘Latin Verse and Composition: The Cambridge Songs Manuscript’ (13/02/1999)

Gaunt, Simon (King’s College, London), ‘Fictions of Orality in Marie de France’s Lais’ (02/2001)

Gibbs, Stephanie (King’s College, London and University of Pennsylvania), ‘Rewriting Cupid: Authorial Identity in Three Late-Medieval Allegories’ (12/06/2004)

Gilbank, Robin (University of Wales, Aberystwyth), ‘Directing Sinners to Deification: Richard Rolle and De Emendatio Vitae’ (19/11/2005)

Gilbert, Jane (UCL), ‘The Knight as Thing: Courtly Love in the Prose Lancelot’ (14/02/2004)

Gill, Miriam (Courtauld), ‘The Poor Man and the Good Woman: The Representation of the Relief of Poverty in English Wall Paintings, 1300-1500’ (11/02/1995)

Gorski, Richard (Hull), ‘Old Age and Office-holding in Fourteenth-Century England’ (16/05/1998)

Gowers, Bernard (Christ Church College, Oxford), ‘Three Posthumous Reputations: Abbo of Fleury, Fulbert of Chartres, Gerbert of Aurillac’ (18/11/2006)

Hardie, Philip (New Hall, Cambridge), ‘Fama amor/amor famae: Some Connections’ (05/02/2000)

Harris, Patricia (University of Essex), ‘Intercultural Connections: Matilda of Saxony and Mertran de Born’ (24/02/2007)

Harwood, Winifred (King Alfred’s Winchester), ‘Feeding the Household – Winchester College 1460-1560’ (16/11/2002)

Haseldine, Julian (Hull University), ‘Title unknown’ (19/05/2000)

Heath, Diane (University of Kent, Canterbury) ‘“A beast, no more”: Doubts and the Transmission of Ideas in a late medieval English Bestiary (Canterbury Cathedral Archives Lit. Ms D.10)’ (25/04/2009)

Henderson, John (Wellcome Institute), ‘Poverty and Charity in Medieval Florence’ (11/02/1995)

Heyworth, Melanie (Royal Holloway and University of Sydney), ‘Constructions of Sexual and Emotional Knowledge in Two Exeter Books Riddles’ (12/06/2004)

Hicks, Michael (King Alfred’s, Winchester), ‘Old Age and the Politics of the Wars of the Roses’ (16/05/1998)

Hinton, Tom (King’s College, London), ‘Medieval Occitan Narrative and Cultural Identity’ (12/04/2007)

Hodgson-Jones, Tom (King’s College, London), ‘Out of the Mouths of Babes: The Good Daughter and the re-knitting of Social Order in the Confessio Amantis’ (24/06/2006)

Holcombe, Barbara (Ludlow, Shropshire), ‘Bede and the Marvellous’ (20/05/1995)

Holdenreid, Anke (UCL), ‘Memory in the Context of Manuscript Studies: Sibylla Tiburna and the Sibylline Tradition’ (10/02/1996)

Hsu, Ken-Kun (King’s College, London), ‘Aimance as the Politics of Friendship in Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale’ (19/04/2008)

Hunt, Tony (Oxford), ‘Anglo-Norman Science’ (19/11/94)

Hurlock, Kathryn (Aberystwyth), ‘Power, Authority and the Crusades: The Experience of Wales’ (25/06/2005)

Insley, Charles (Assistant County Editor, Victoria County History Northamptonshire), ‘Ecclesiastical Land Units and Landscapes in the South-West c.700-1100’ (11/11/2000)

Jesch, Judith (Nottingham), ‘The Raven’s Yule: Beastly Battles in Skaldic Verse’ (08/02/1997)

Jobson, Adrian (Public Record Office), ‘Thou Shalt not Kill: Enforcing the Law in Mid-Thirteenth-Century Oxfordshire’ (24/11/2001)

Jones, Malcolm (Sheffield), ‘Humour and Folly in Late Medieval Art’ (11/05/1996)

Kabir, Ananya (Trinity College, Cambridge), ‘Paradise in the Otherworld of Anglo-Latin Visions’ (09/11/1996)

Kabir,Ananya (Trinity College, Cambridge),‘Scop, Scyppend, Shaping: Imaging Oral Performance in Anglo-Saxon Texts’ (02/2001)

Keiser, George (Kansas State University), ‘Sacred History, Secular History, and the Marvellous: John Lydgate’s Understanding’ (20/05/1995)

Knight, Suzy (Queen Mary, University of London), ‘Protecting the Innocents: Devotional Jewellery and Magical Amulets for Children: The Case of the Florentine Foundling Hospital’ (19/04/2008)

Koppinen, Pirkko (Royal Holloway), ‘Multimodal Images: The Boar in Beowulf’ (12/04/2007)

Koppinen, Pirkko (Royal Holloway), ‘Ond Seo Cwen Numen (And the Queen Taken): Feud and the Ambiguity of Hildeburg’s Marriage in the Old English Poem Beowulf’ (12/06/2004)

Kulikhankhattak, Shaheen (London) ‘Muslim Women in the Middle Ages’ (22/05/1999)

l’Estrange, Elizabeth (University of Leeds), ‘Imaging the Spaces of Childbirth’ (15/02/2003)

Lambert, Malcolm, ‘Women in Catharism’ (08/11/1998)

Langum, Virginia (Magdalene College, Cambridge), ‘Wholesome Tongues: Speech, Health and Authority in Late Medieval Medical Prologues’ (19/04/2008)

Lay, Christopher (Queen Mary, University of London), ‘The Manuscripts of William Lichfield’s “Complaint of God”’ (12/04/2007)

Ledfors, Jennifer (Royal Holloway), ‘A Medieval Maritime Parish and Family: The Gonsons of St Dunstan in the East, London 1500-1550’ (25/06/2005)

Lee, Christina (University of Nottingham), ‘Fabricated Identities: Textiles as Markers of Ethnicity’ (24/02/2007)

Lee, John (formerly University of Cambridge), ‘Feeding the Colleges: Cambridge’s Food Supplies, 1450-1560’ (16/11/2002)

Lees, Clare (King’s College, London), ‘Judith’s Masculinity’ (17/11/2007)

Lewis, Katherine J. (University of Huddersfield), ‘Religious and Devotional Masculinity in Late Medieval England’ (17/11/2007)

Lewis, Lucy, ‘Medieval Commentaries on the Consolation of Philosophy’ (13/02/1999)

Limor, Ora (Open University of Israel), ‘One Holy Site Shared by Three Religions: The Case of Pelagia's Tomb in Jerusalem’ (21/11/2009)

Lowden, John (Courtauld Institute), ‘Images before Words: The Strange Case of the Bibles Moralisées’ (16/02/2002)

Lutton, Rob (University of London), ‘Heresy and Orthodoxy in the Lollard Centre of Tenterden c.1420-1540’ (08/11/1998)

Lynch, Clare (University of London), ‘Friendship in The Wife’s Lament’ (19/05/2000)

MacLehose, William (Wellcome Trust for the History of Medicine at UCL), ‘Childhood and Human Frailty in Western Medieval Medicine’ (22/11/2008)

Maddern, Carole (King’s College, London), ‘“Þu cwen, lare lufiend”: Transformations of the Learned Female across Medieval English Texts of Apollonius of Tyre’ (13/02/1999)

Magner, Carol (King’s College, London), ‘The Knight of the Lion in Medieval Literature and Art’ (16/02/2002)

Martin, Joanna (Lincoln College, Oxford), ‘Literary Reputations in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth Century Scottish Literature: The Case of John Gower’ (18/11/2006)

McAvoy, Elizabeth Herbert (University of Leicester), ‘“[A]n awngel al clothyd in white”: Hermeneutics of the Child in the Book of Margery Kempe’ (15/02/2003)

McCarthy, Dorothy (Oxford), ‘Some Medieval Dogs’ (17/05/1997)

McClune, Katherine (St Hilda’s College, Oxford), ‘Blasphemed in thy ryme’: Poetic Reputation in John Stewart of Baldynneis’ Ane Schersing Ovt of Trew Felicitie and Gavin Douglas’ Palace of Honoure’ (18/11/2006)

McGrail, Sean (Southampton), ‘A Thirteenth-Century Medieval Hulc: New Light from Twentieth-Century India’ (14/02/1998)

McKinnell, John (Durham), ‘Mocking the Gods, Mocking Ourselves: Interpreting the Old Norse Thrymskvitha’ (11/05/1996)

Mester, Annegret (King’s College, London), ‘Animals in Old English Poetry with Reference to Old Norse Material’ (17/05/1997)

Michael, Michael A. (Christies Education), ‘The Semiology of the “Prayerbook”’ (16/02/2002)

Mills, Robert (King’s College, London), ‘The Medieval “FTM” Narrative: Female Masculinity in the Middle Ages’ (17/11/2007)

Milne, Gustav (UCL), ‘The Archaeology of Medieval Poetry’ (11/02/1995)

Monnas, Lisa (Independent Scholar), ‘The Fourteenth-Century Pourpoint of Charles de Blois in the Musée Historique des Tissus at Lyon’ (08/02/1997)

Morison, Patricia (Oxford), ‘Miracle Books: What do they Tell us about Health and Sickness in the Middle Ages?’ (19/11/94)

Moss, Amanda (Royal Holloway), ‘Westminster School MS 3: A Fifteenth-Century Devotional Miscellany’ (12/04/2007)

Muessig, Carolyn (University of Bristol), ‘Education in Nunneries in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries’ (17/05/2003)

Mulder-Bakker, Anneke (University of Groningen), ‘Eve of Saint Martin, Community of  Liege and Corpus Christie’ (17/05/2003)

Mylod, Liz (Institute for Medieval Studies, University Leeds), ‘Pilgrim Descriptions of Jerusalem in the Thirteenth Century’ (21/11/2009)

Neville, Jennifer (Christ’s College, Cambridge), ‘Out-of-body Experiences in Anglo-Saxon England’ (09/11/1996)

Neville, Jennifer (Royal Holloway), ‘Fostering the Cuckoo in Exeter Book Riddle 9’ (26/02/2005)

Newton, Patricia (Independent Scholar, London), ‘The Sinner and the Saint – Zosimas and Mary of Egypt’ (19/11/2005)

Newton, Patricia (Royal Holloway), ‘Mary of Egypt, the Harlot Saint’ (22/05/1999)

Nichols, Ann (Winona State University), ‘De locis sanctis in CCCC, MS 426, f. 72r (f. 155r)’ (21/11/2009)

North, Richard (UCL), ‘Gunnar in Njáls Saga: Man or Monster?’ (20/05/1995)

O Dochartaigh, Catriona (School of Celtic Studies, D.IA.S.), ‘Prayer in Medieval Irish Manuscripts’ (02/2001)

Odonkor, Heidrun (King’s College, London), ‘The Love Declaration in Middle High German Romances’ (14/02/2004)

Oliver, Andrea (University of East Anglia), ‘John, Duke of Lancaster and St. George: The King’s Two Bodies’ (24/06/2006)

Oliver, Andrea (University of East Anglia), ‘Memorialisation and Masculinity: Saint Thomas of Lancaster’ (19/11/2005)

Orchard, Andy (Emmanuel College, Cambridge), ‘The Meaning of the Liber Monstrorum’ (20/05/1995)

Orme, Nicholas (University of Exeter), ‘Going to School in the Fifteenth Century’ (22/11/2008)

Orme, Nicholas (University of Exeter), ‘Problems of Researching Medieval English Childhood’ (15/02/2003)

Orton, Peter (Queen Mary and Westfield), ‘The impact of incipient literacy on linguistic and literary forms in Old English’ (02/2001)

Page, Sophie (UCL), ‘Title unknown’ (20/11/2004)

Palti, Kathleen (UCL), ‘Writings Women’s Songs: Lullabies and the Medieval English Carol’ (24/06/2006)

Paz, James (King's College, London), ‘Perception, Place and Power: the anonymous Life of St Cuthbert and the Lindisfarne Gospels’ (25/04/2009)

Phillips, Helen (Nottingham), ‘Otherworlds and the Prologue to The Legend of Good Women: Religious, Comic and Political’ (09/11/1996)

Piroyanski, Danna (Queen Mary), ‘Richard Scrope Archbishop of York: Patron-Saint in Perilous Seas’ (12/06/2004)

Piroyansky, Danna (Queen Mary College, London), ‘“[A] martirdome and a contynuaunce of sorowe ay lasting”: Love and Marriage as Martyrdom in Later Medieval England’ (14/02/2004)

Pluskowski, Aleks (University of Cambridge), ‘Hunting the Hunters: Wolves and Royal Interests in Medieval Britain and Scandinavia’ (26/02/2005)

Pratt, Karen (King’s College, London), ‘De Vetula: The Figure of the Old Woman in Old French Literature’ (16/05/1998)

Pratt, Karen (King’s College, London), ‘Discovering the Truth: Clothing and Disguise in Medieval French Literature’ (08/02/1997)

Purkis, William (University of Birmingham), TBA (21/11/2009)

Raner, Christine (Emmanuel College, Cambridge), ‘Dragon Fights in Medieval Latin Saints’ Lives and their Relevance to Beowulf’ (20/05/1995)

Rapoport, Yossef (Queen Mary, University of London), ‘Jerusalem as a Muslim City’ (21/11/2009)

Rees-Jones, Sarah (Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York), ‘Marketing Later Medieval York’ (11/11/1995)

Resl, Brigitte (Goldsmith’s College, London), ‘Title unknown’ (20/11/2004)

Resl, Brigitte (Goldsmith’s College, London), ‘Wild Beasts and Medieval Mentalities’ (26/02/2005)

Ringer, Laurie (Hull), ‘Lollard Concepts of Spiritual Food and Feeding’ (08/11/1998)

Robson, Peter (Corpus Christi College, Oxford), ‘Alfred’s Gothic Ancestry and the Viking Invasions’ (25/06/2005)

Romanova, Natasha (UCL), ‘Female Doubles in Thomas’s Tristan and in Renaut’s Galeron de Bretagne’ (12/06/2004)

Romanova, Natasha (University of Aberystwyth), ‘Idyllic Masculinity in French Romance’ (17/11/2007)

Rose-Steel, Tamsyn (University of Exeter), ‘The Use of Citation and the Vernacular in the Motets of the Roman de Fauvel’ (25/04/2009)

Rosser, Gervase (St Catherine College, Oxford), ‘Myth, Image and Social Process in the English Medieval Town’ (11/11/1995)

Roy, Gopa (Independent Scholar, London), ‘The Sacramental Structure of the Old English Life of Mary of Egypt’ (19/11/2005)

Salih, Sarah (University of East Anglia), ‘Concepts of Idolatry in Fifteenth-Century English Hagiography’ (19/11/2005)

Scarfe-Beckett, Catherine (London), ‘Leaves in Books: Herbal Authorities’ (19/11/94)

Sears, Elizabeth (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor), ‘Urban Imagery in Parisian Manuscripts of the Early Fourteenth Century’ (11/11/1995)

Shaw, Philip (Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds), ‘“Vinctus sum domni regis amore mei”: Expressions of Love in the Correspondence of Charlemagne and Paul the Deacon?’ (14/02/2004)

Simons, Penny (University of Sheffield), ‘Courts, Courtliness and Courtship in Aimon de Varennes’ Florimont’ (25/02/2006)

Simpson, James (Girton College, Cambridge), ‘“Medieval” Anti-Imperialism and “Renaissance” Imperialism: The Alliterative Destruction of Troy and Douglas’ Eneados’ (08/02/1997)

Sinclair, Finn (University of Glasgow), ‘Communities of Difference: Constantinople and the Ambiguity of Desire’ (17/05/2003)

Singer, Jill (King’s College, London), ‘The Company they Keep – A Vocabulary of Poverty in Early Middle English’ (24/06/2006)

Skinner, Trish (Wellcome Institute), ‘Gender and Poverty in the Medieval World’ (11/02/1995)

Stanham, Matthew (Royal Holloway), ‘Crusading Violence in Middle English Literature’ (24/11/2001)

Stone, Rachel (King’s College, London), ‘Good Christian Noblemen’: Carolingian Morality and Masculinity’ (18/05/2001)

Swan, Mary (University of Leeds), ‘Title unknown’ (10/02/1996)

Swanson, Robert (Department of History, University of Birmingham), ‘Seasons for the soul? The Church and the year’ (21/02/2009)

Sweetinburgh, Sheila (University of Kent at Canterbury), ‘Institutional Care for the Elderly: The Evidence from Late Medieval Sandwich’ (16/05/1998)

Tasioulas, Jacqueline (Newnham College, Cambridge), ‘Christ in the Virgin’s Womb’ (15/02/2003)

Tate, R. B. (Nottingham), ‘The Pilgrim Maritime Route to St. James of Compostela in the Late Middle Ages’ (14/02/1998)

Thomas, Daniel (Jesus College, Oxford), ‘Prisons in Old English: Image and Reality’ (25/04/2009)

Tolley, Clive (Chester), ‘The Milling Ocean: Some Aspects of the Sea in Old Norse and Finnish Myth’ (14/02/1998)

Truelove, Alison (Cambridge), ‘Minding the Biographical Gaps in Fifteenth-Century English Correspondence’ (17/05/2002)

Truelove, Alison (Royal Holloway), ‘Levels of Literacy Amongst Fifteenth-Century Writers’ (24/02/2001)

Van Houts, Elisabeth (Emmanuel College, Cambridge), ‘The Role of Aristocratic Women in the Cultural Relations between Germany and the Kingdom of Poland (11th c.)’ (24/02/2007)

Walker-Meikle, Kathleen (UCL), ‘Pet Keeping and Gender’ (26/02/2005)

Wareham, Andrew (Editor, Victoria County History), ‘The Transformation of the Cambridgeshire Fenland c.970-1100’ (11/11/2000)

Watt, Diane (University of  Wales, Aberystwyth), ‘Lesbian (In)visibility in Anglo-Saxon Saints’ Lives’ (24/02/2007)

Watt, Diane (University of Aberystwyth), ‘Critics, Communities, Compassionate Criticism: Learning from The Book of Margery Kempe’ (17/05/2003)

Watt, Diane (University of Wales, Aberystwyth), ‘Acting Up?: Women who Dress as Men in Medieval Literature’ (08/02/1997)

Webb, Robert (Independent Scholar), ‘Dressage and Message in the Roman de Fauvel: The Perilous Plight of a Dun-Coloured Horse’ (08/02/1997)

Webb, Robert (University of Surrey), ‘The Role of Memory in Music’ (10/02/1996)

Wells, Sharon (formerly Centre for Medieval Studies, York), ‘Food Provisioning in London and the Creation of a Civic Ethos’ (16/11/2002)

West, Geoff (King’s College, London), ‘Preserving the Civic Fabric: Government Intervention and Local Response in Ninth-Century Italy’ (11/11/1995)

White, Eileen (Bradford), ‘The Medieval Kitchen’ (16/11/2002)

Williamson, Tom (University of East Anglia), ‘Woodland and Champion: Exploring Regional Variation in the Medieval Landscape’ (20/11/2004)

Wilson, Christopher (Queen Mary, University of London), ‘The After-life of Visions of the Otherworld in Thirteenth-century England’ (19/04/2008)

Windeatt (Emmanuel College, Cambridge), Barry, ‘Hearing Voices and Writing the Self: Margery Kempe’ (17/05/2002)

Windeatt, Barry (Emmanuel College, Cambridge), ‘Love in a Manner of Speaking: Medieval English Examples’ (14/02/2004)

Zanna, Paolo (St John’s College, Cambridge), ‘Eulogy and Elegy in the Wonders of Early Medieval Cities’ (11/11/1995)

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