The 28th Harlaxton Medieval Symposium

‘The Yorkist Age’

19-22 July 2011

Convened by Hannes Kleineke and Christian Steer

The 2011 Harlaxton Symposium will take at its theme 'The Yorkist Age' to mark the round anniversaries of the birth of Richard Plantagenet, duke of York, and of the accession of King Edward IV. While the politics of the age were marked by upheaval and civil war, trade and literature, art and architecture, music and manufacturing saw important developments. For the purposes of the symposium, which - as ever - will bring together scholars from a wide range of disciplines, the 'Yorkist age' has been broadly defined, to take in the period from the birth of the duke of York to the execution of his granddaughter Margaret, countess of Salisbury, in 1541, although the focus of the conference will naturally lie in the second half of the 15th century.

Harlaxton Medieval Symposium 2011: the Yorkist Age

Provisional programme

Tuesday, 19th July

1.00 Registration and refreshments

2.15 Welcome: Dr Gordon Kingsley (Principal, Harlaxton College) and Christian Steer (Secretary of the Harlaxton Medieval Symposium

2.30-2.45 Introduction: Hannes Kleineke (History of Parliament)

2.45-3.45 Michael Hicks (Winchester): The Yorkist Age?

3.45 Tea

4.30-6.15 The royal House of York

Pamela Tudor-Craig (Society of Antiquaries): The first portraits of the Yorkist kings

Joanna Laynesmith: The Piety of Cecily, Duchess of York: A Reputation Reconsidered

Charlie Farris (RHUL): The new Edwardians? Royal piety in the Yorkist Age

6.30 Dinner

8.00 Bar and Croquet on the Lawn (weather permitting)

Wednesday 20 July 7.00-8.30 Breakfast

9.00-10.45 Nobility and Opposition

Simon Payling (History of Parliament): Rehabilitation and Retribution: Lancastrians in Edward IV's First Reign

James Ross (PRO): Government by aristocracy? The power of the higher nobility, 1461- c.1500

Maria Hayward (Southampton): 'Yorkists in Tudor clothing: An analysis of the clothing provided for Yorkist prisoners in the Tower by Henry VII and Henry VIII'

10.45-11.30 Coffee

11.30-12.45 The younger brother

Sean Cunningham (PRO): The Yorkists at War

Anne Sutton: Richard III and his Towns

12.45-2.00 Lunch

2.00-3.45 Civic self-expression

Meg Twycross (Lancaster): Civic Performance in the Reign of Edward IV

Lister Matheson (Michigan State): National and Civic Chronicles in Late Fifteenth Century London

Matthew Payne (LMA): Robert Fabyan's Civic Life

3.45-4.30 Tea

4.30-6.15 Death and Commemoration

Alexandra Buckle (Oxford): 'Entumbid Right Princely': The re-interment of Richard Beauchamp, earl of Warwick (1475), and a lost rite

David Harry (Bristol): Learning to die in Yorkist England: Earl Rivers' "Cordyal"

Linda Monckton (English Heritage): The End of the Line: The Chantry Chapel of Margaret Countess of Salisbury

6.30 Dinner

8.00 Bar and Croquet on the Lawn (weather permitting)

Thursday 21 July 7.00-8.30 Breakfast

9.00-10.00 Tim Tatton Brown: The first phase of the new St George's Chapel, Windsor (c.1473-84)

10.00-10.30 Coffee

10.30-11.45 England and the Continent

Livia Visser Fuchs: The Meeting of the Duke and the Emperor: The English Survival of a lost French Text

Jelle Haemers and Frederick Buylaert (Ghent): The Crown and the Continent: War, Politics and Diplomacey in England, France and the Low Countries, 1475-1500

12.15 Outing to Fotheringhay

Nigel Saul & Clive Burgess (RHUL)

7.00 Reception in the bar

7.30 Conference dinner in the Great Hall (Black tie optional)

Friday 22 July 7.00-8.30 Breakfast

9.00-10.15 The Church

Kate Heard (Royal Collection): Vestments in the Yorkist Age

Anna Eavis (English Heritage): John Clopton's Clerestory Glazing at Long Melford

10.15-10.50 Coffee

10.50-12.00 Heraldry and Genealogy

Nigel Ramsay (UCL): Richard III and the Heralds

David Griffith (Birmingham): Visualising Genealogy in the Yorkist Age

12.00-1.00 Derek Pearsall (Harvard): Yorkist Literature. Is there such a thing?

1.00 Lunch and departure

Contacts:
Hannes Kleineke
The History of Parliament Trust
hkleinek@histparl.ac.uk

Christian Steer
Royal Holloway University of London
C.Steer@rhul.ac.uk

Note: Booking will be available in Spring 2011