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| Thursday 24 July |
| 3:30 |
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Arrival at Pyke House |
| 6:00 |
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Opening Reception at Battle Abbey |
| 6:50 |
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Allen Brown Memorial Lecture:
Judith Green (University of Edinburgh), ‘Kingship, Lordship, and
Community in Eleventh-Century England’ |
| 8:15 |
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Dinner at Pyke House |
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| Friday
25 July |
| 8:30 |
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Breakfast |
| 9:30 |
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Elizabeth Tyler (University of
York), ‘The Vita Ædwardi: The Politics of Poetry at Wilton
Abbey’ |
| 10:45 |
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Coffee |
| 11:15 |
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Sebastien Danielo (Paris 7 Denis
Diderot) on the abbey of St Benet at Holme |
| 1:00 |
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Lunch |
| 2:30 |
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Jean Truax (Houston, Texas), ‘All
Roads Lead To Chartres: The House of Blois, the Papacy, and the
Anglo-Norman Succession of 1135’ |
| 4:00 |
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Tea |
| 4:30 |
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Catherine Clarke (Swansea
University) on Henry of Huntingdon and civil war |
| 7:00 |
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Dinner |
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Saturday 26 July |
| 8:30 |
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Breakfast |
| 9:30 |
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Chris Lewis and Carol Davidson
Cragoe, ‘A West Sussex Minster and its Daughter Churches’ (brief
introduction to excursion) |
| 10:00 |
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Depart for excursion to Lyminster,
Burpham, and Poling |
| 6:00 |
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Return to Battle |
| 7:00 |
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Dinner |
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| Sunday
27 July |
| 8:30 |
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Breakfast |
| 9:30 |
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Björn Weiler (Aberystwyth
University), ‘William of Malmesbury and his Contemporaries: Writing
Regnal History, c. 1100–c. 1150’ |
| 10:45 |
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Coffee |
| 11:15 |
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Neil Wright (University of
Cambridge) on Hegesippus and history-writing in Anglo-Norman England |
| 1:00 |
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Lunch |
| 2:30 |
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Emma Mason (London), ‘Brothers in
Court: Urse d’Abetot and Robert Despenser’ |
| 4:00 |
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Tea |
| 4:30 |
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Ad Putter (University of Bristol),
‘Gerald of Wales and the Prophecies of Merlin’ |
| 7:00 |
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Dinner |
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| Monday
28 July |
| 8:30 |
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Breakfast |
| 9:30 |
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Kathleen Thompson (Bristol), ‘The
First Hundred Years at Tiron: Institutionalizing Reform’ |
| 10:45 |
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Coffee |
| 11:15 |
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Janet Burton (University of Wales,
Lampeter) on monasteries and violence |
| 1:00 |
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Lunch |
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Close of conference |
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The 32nd Battle
Conference on Anglo-Norman Studies
will be held
Thursday 30 July to Monday 3 August 2009
at the University of Wales Conference Centre, Gregynog, Newtown,
Powys
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