Programme

Lords in the Landscape 800-1300 Radcliffe Humanities Radcliffe Observatory Quarter Woodstock Road Oxford OX2 6GG 18 February 2017

8.45-9.10

Registration

9.10-9.15

Welcome and opening remarks

9.15-10.15

Keynote: Dr Chris Lewis (King’s College London)

10.15-10.30

Break

10.30-12.00

Panel: Settlement and conquest Andrew Holland (Queen’s College, Oxford) Power and Legitimacy in a Frontier Landscape: Northeastern Wales and the Mercian Supremacy Dr Jane Harrison (Department for Continuing Education, Oxford) Lordship and Colonisation: Viking-Late Norse settlement in the North Atlantic, c. AD 800-1200 Alexander Dymond (Corpus Christi College, Oxford) The Estates of William the Conqueror: Royal Property in England and Ducal Property in Normandy in the 11th Century

This event is held in association with Oxford Medieval Studies, sponsored by The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH).

12.00-12.15

Coffee and refreshments

12.15-1.45

Panel: Projecting lordship Dr Rosamond Faith (Kellogg College, Oxford) Lordscapes Charles Roe (University of Leeds) St Edmund of Abingdon: Authority, Sanctity, and the Landscape Susanna Markert (Jesus College, Oxford) Private lordship and the forest law: the earls of Lancaster and the forest of Pickering, 1267-1334

1.45-2.15

Lunch

2.15-3.45

Panel: Prosopographical approaches to lordship Peter Watson (Kellogg College, Oxford) The Okeovers: lesser landholders in their landscape Olivia Baskerville (Corpus Christi College, Oxford) “Three Women each calling herself Queen”: effects of competing claims to reginal lands during the Anarchy on the English landscape (1135-1151) Hervin Fernández-Aceves (University of Leeds) Topologies of medieval local power: the prosopographical networks of the Norman nobility in the kingdom of Sicily

3.45-4.00

Coffee and refreshments

4.00-5.30

Panel: Property and control of the landscape Nathalie Gonzalez (Archaeology South East, University College London) Co-lordship and multiple fortifications in Provence between 800 and 1300 Therron Welstead (University of Wales Trinity St David) Pontefract and Trowbridge Castle: Norman Castles Built on Saxon Cemetery Sites Lorenzo Tabarrini (Linacre College, Oxford) Territorial lordship in Tuscany during the High Middle Ages (11th-13th centuries)

5.30-5.45

Break

5.45-6.15

Closing remarks: Dr Paul Hyams (Cornell University)

6.15-6.45

Drinks reception

This event is held in association with Oxford Medieval Studies, sponsored by The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH).