Welcome to the

Harlaxton Symposium website

The Harlaxton Symposium is an interdisciplinary gathering of academics, students and enthusiasts which meets annually to celebrate medieval history, art, literature and architecture through a programme of papers selected around a chosen theme.

The Symposium, which began in 1984, was the brain-child of Dr. Pamela Tudor-Craig, Lady Wedgwood, and the host of the four- day conference has always been Harlaxton College in Lincolnshire, a delightful Victorian Baroque mansion which is now the British campus of the University of Evansville, Indiana.

Harlaxton has long been able to boast a strong participation by international scholars from educational establishments as far afield as America and Australia. In recent years, the profile of the conference has increased, and the high standard of papers delivered - as well as the varied programme which always includes a conference dinner and an outing - creates a forum for friendly intellectual debate which attracts people back to Harlaxton year after year.

The proceedings of each conference are published, and since 1989 they have been published in a series entitled Harlaxton Medieval Studies by Shaun Tyas of Donington, Lincs. Many previous volumes are still available (see previous and forthcoming publications).