The Politics of Speech in Late Medieval England

Saturday 8 March 2008, 10.00am-6.00pm, Birkbeck College, University of London

  • Susie Phillips, Northwestern University 'The Trouble with Gossip in Late
    Medieval England'
  • Sandy Bardsley, Moravian University 'Scolding Women and Reproaching Men:
    Speech and Gender in Post-Plague England'
  • Marion Turner, Jesus College Oxford 'Seeking the News: Parliament,
    Reportage, and Control in Ricardian England'
  • Andy Wood, University of East Anglia 'The politics of speech and silence
    in Tudor England'
  • Paul Strohm, Columbia University 'Response'

The colloquium is free, although spaces are limited. Graduate students are particularly welcome to attend. For information and to book a place, contact the conference administrator Daniel Binney (admin@history.bbk.ac.uk; tel. [UK] 020 7631 6268) or the conference organiser Professor John H. Arnold ( j.arnold@bbk.ac.uk).

 

Call for Papers: THE MEDIEVAL CHRONICLE / DIE MITTELALTERLICHE CHRONIK / LA CHRONIQUE AU MOYEN AGE

21st-25th July 2008, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast UK

The Institute of Byzantine Studies within the School of History and Anthropology of Queen’s University Belfast is pleased to announce the Fifth International Conference on the Medieval Chronicle, which will take place 21st-25th July 2008 at Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT THE ORGANISER or see the conference poster.

Dr Dion C. Smythe, Institute of Byzantine Studies, Queen’s University, Belfast, BELFAST N. Ireland  BT7 1NN UK dionsmythe@hotmail.com

 
'LOMERS (London Old and Middle English Research Seminar): 2007-2008 programme
For the full programme click here (*.pdf format)
 
La3amon/Lawman Conference

The Sixth La3amon/Lawman Conference ('Lawman in his context'), will take place at Gregynog Hall, Newtown, Powys (Wales) from 1 to 6 July 2008.

For details, see the website: http://www.layamon.org

 

Call for papers: 'After Arundel: Religious Writing in Fifteenth-Century England'. 

Click here for details (*.pdf format). Please contact vincent.gillespie@ell.ox.ac.uk