Connections, Networks, and Contexts, University of Edinburgh, April 17, 2015
Registration is now open for Connections, Networks, and Contexts, the Late Antique and Medieval Postgraduate and Early Careers (LAMPS) Conference. The conference is open to all and attendance is free, but we do require those expecting to attend the conference for the whole day to register.
Papers:
Panel I: Connections & Divisions in Material Culture
Exit through the Gift-Shop? A re-appraisal of early medieval hill fort occupation
Helen Anderson [University of Wales, Trinity St. David]
The Small World of Printers: Religious Printing for England, c.1500-1549
Katherine Krick [Durham University]
South-West Scotland and the Roman World: Imposition, Appropriation, Refusal and Change
Alessandra Turrini [University of Edinburgh]
Panel II: Contextualising the Margins of the Byzantine Empire
Lying at the periphery, yet not too far from the Centre – interrelationship between Crimean Cherson and Constantinople in the early medieval period
Martina Čechová [Institute of Slavonic Studies, Czech Academy of Sciences]
Reconstructing Late Antique Constantinople from the Cypriot periphery
Richard Maguire [University of East Anglia]
Panel III: Religious Networks on the British Isles
The Mendicant Orders as Forerunners of University Academic Networks
Matthew Beckmann [University of Leeds]
Textual and Visual Networks in the Art of the Anglo-Saxon Benedictine Reform
Elizabeth Wright [York University]
Bede’s social network and other contacts: using network analysis to interpret early medieval travel
Helen Lawson [University of Edinburgh]
Panel IV: Macro and Micro Movements in the Medieval World
Liturgical contexts and patterns of movement in the complex of St Stephen’s church in Umm er-Rasas, Jordan
Anastasia Moskvina [University of East Anglia]
Islamic Impacts in Viking-Age Scandinavian Culture: Assimilation, Adaptation and Appropriation of Oriental Finds
Katia Fernández Mayo [University of Edinburgh]
Poster Session
Getting to know the neighbours: a Fatimad diplomat's reaction to the arrival of the Crusaders
Mathew Barber [University of Edinburgh]
Setting the Scene: an image of the desert in the late thirteenth-century Italian City
Amelia Hope-Jones [University of Edinburgh]
Early Medieval Rural Estates and Settlements in Dumfriesshire: The Case of Lochmaben
Christoph Otten [University of Edinburgh]
Death and the Welsh Home
Joshua Graham [University of Bath]