Conquest: 1016, 1066 (CFP)

This CFP will interest many readers. Posted on behalf of Laura Ashe.

Conquest: 1016, 1066

 An Interdisciplinary Anniversary Conference

St Anne's College, Oxford, and TORCH, 20-23 July 2016

CALL FOR SESSION PROPOSALS

Sessions will run in parallel for 90 minutes each. Session proposals of any suitable form are invited (3x20min papers, 2x30min papers, round tables, debates); session organisers are welcome to have speakers already in mind, but need not do so: a call for papers will follow. Session organisers are asked to nominate one or more of the thematic strands in which their session would fit:

1.    The Church; monasticism, clerical reform, theology, religious experience

2.    Literature, authors, and patronage

3.    Language and multilingualism, language contact

4.    Institutions and governance; lordship; kingship

5.    Warfare, battles, conduct in war, fighting men

6.    Art and material culture; music; court life

7.    Society and peoples

8.    Trade and commerce

9.    Space, movement, contact, networks; England and Europe, England and Scandinavia

10.  Historiography

Download the Session Proposal form (Word document)

Email session proposals by 1 May 2014.

Steering committee: Laura Ashe, Sarah Foot, Charlie Insley, Chris Lewis