Programme

Wednesday 28 April 2010

1.00pm-1.50pm	Registration: Beaumont Hall Foyer
1.50pm-2.00pm	Welcome: Beaumont Music Room (all sessions) Orietta Da Rold Julie Coleman, Head of School of English (Leicester)
2.00pm-3.00pm	Plenary Elaine Treharne (Florida State): 'The Sensual Book and Its Readers, 1000-1400. Keep your wits about you'
3.30pm-4.00pm	Tea and Coffee
4.00pm-5.30pm	Writing Law Andrew Prescott (Glasgow): 'Creating Administrative Texts: The Case of the Peasants’ Revolt' David Woodman (Cambridge): 'The Rewriting of the Anglo-Saxon Past: A Middle English Rhyming Charter of King Athelstan and the Beverley Cartulary (BL, MS Additional 61901) in Context' Kathryn A Lowe (Glasgow): 'The unhampered translation of will into act'? S 980, Bury St Edmunds, and its liberty'
6.00pm-7.00pm	Wine reception sponsored by British Library Publishing (Beaumont Wedgwood Room)
7.00pm-8.00pm	Dinner (Beaumont Dining Room)
8.00pm-9.00pm	New and Old Aidan Conti (Bergen): 'Writing England c. 1200, Reading England in the Reformation and Now: Wheelocke's Examination of the Trinity Homilies' Jean-Pascal Pouzet (Limoges): 'Book production and poetic Relation – Openness and Opacity in Manuscripts Produced by English Augustinian Canons between c.1200 and c.1400'

9.00am- 9.30pm	Tea and Coffee
9.30am- 11.00am	Writing Literary Histories John Thompson (Queen’s Belfast): 'Writing England in the “Cursor Mundi”' Philip A. Shaw (Leicester): 'Re-Writing the English: On Composing and Cutting Robert of Gloucester’s Metrical Chronicle' Malasree Home (Liverpool): 'Writing Power Politics: The King and the Church in the Peterborough Chronicle'
11.00am- 11.30am	Tea and Coffee
11.30am- 1.00pm	Producing and Using Books Mark Faulkner (Oxford): 'Towards a Typology of Manuscript Use' Erik Kwakkel (Victoria, British Columbia): 'Unsuitable for Proper Books: The Use of Off-cuts in English Book Production' Orietta Da Rold (Leicester): 'Writing Early English Books'
1.00pm- 2.00pm	Lunch (Beaumont Dining Room)
2.00pm- 4.00pm	England and the Vernaculars Jennifer Jahner (Pennsylvania): 'Translating the Vox Populi: Trilingualism and Political Reformism in Thirteenth-Century England' Helen Gittos (Kent): 'The Languages of the Liturgy in Medieval England' Joyce Hill (Leeds): Two Bishops, Two Languages, and One Manuscript: Wulfstan, Leofric and CCCC 190 Mark Chambers and Louise Sylvester (Westminster): 'The Medieval Dress and Textile Vocabulary in Unpublished Sources Project'
4.00pm- 4.30pm	Tea and Coffee
4.30pm-5.30pm	Plenary Jocelyn Wogan-Browne (York): 'Is there a Middle in the Middle of Middle English Literature?'
6.00pm- 7.00pm	Wine reception sponsored by Brepols (Beaumont Wedgwood Room)
7.00pm 8.00pm	Dinner (Beaumont Dining Room)

8.30am- 9.00pm	Tea and Coffee
9.00am- 10.00am	Writing and Re-Writing Old English Mark Atherton (Oxford): 'An Early ‘Mirror for Princes’? ‘Apollonius of Tyre’ and ‘Joseph and His Brothers’ in the Mid-Eleventh-Century Wulfstan Anthology CCCC 201' Rob Payne (Cambridge): 'Stabilising the Continuum? The Changing Manuscript Contexts of the Conduct of Life'
10.00am- 10.30am	Tea and Coffee
10.30am- 12.00pm	Owners and Scribes Hugh Thomas (Miami): 'Secular Clerics as Book Owners in Twelfth-Century England' Susanne Gärtner (München): 'From King to Scribe: The Old English Soliloquies' Fran J. Alvarez Lopez (Manchester): 'Marginal Scribes, Practical Teachers: A Case Study on the Use of Cotton Faustina A. x'
12.00pm- 12.45pm	Response Tony Edwards (De Montfort University): 'Directions in the Study of the Early English Books'
12.45pm- 2.30pm 2.30pm	Book Launch: The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English sponsored by Oxford University Press, Wine Reception and Lunch (Beaumont Wedgwood Room) Departure