ARCHITECTURAL REPRESENTATION IN THE MIDDLE AGES

7th–8th APRIL, 2017

09.30–10.00: Registration

10.00‒10.15: Welcome and Opening Remarks

10.15‒11.15: Keynote One Introduced by Karl Kinsella Prof. Robert Bork University of Iowa

Convention and Compression in Medieval Architectural Representation

11.15‒11.45: Coffee break

11.45–13.00: Panel 1 Meg Boulton Emma Wells

The Art of Building(s): Representations of Architectural Space in the St William Window and Great East Window of York Minster

Livia Lupi Engaging and Persuading: Fictive Architecture and Narrative in Medieval Italian Fresco Cycles

Jayne Wackett

Intrinsically Architectural: the Lost Wall-paintings of the Corona Chapel at Canterbury Cathedral

13.00–14.00: Lunch

14.00–15.15: Panel 2 Laura Varnam

Claudia Wardle Landscape or Architecture? Ferrarese Depictions of Saint Jerome in the Wilderness

Louise Campion

At Home with Christ: The Domesticated Jesus of Nicholas Love’s Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ

Johannes Wolf The Ends of Architecture: Revisiting the Anchorhold in the Ancrene Wisse

15.15‒15.30: Coffee break

15.30–16.45: Panel 3 Cliff Sofield Scott Stull

Castle Viewscapes in Literature and Landscapes

Jane Harrison

Northern Landscapes and the Architecture of Settlement: Viking-Norse Longhouses in the North Atlantic c. AD 800–1200

Anastasia Moskvina Architectural Alignment in Anglo-Saxon Settlements: Zoning, Meaning and Function

16.45–17.00: Short break

17.00–17.50: Panel 4 Conor O’Brien Amanda Charland

Power, Pride, and Beauty: The Biography of Ascalon’s Ayyubid and Frankish City Walls, 1187–92

David Mason The Architecture of Crusade: Saracen Spaces in English Fifteenth-Century Printed Prose

18.00–19.00: Exhibition of Architectural Materials from the Archive of University College

19.15: Conference dinner Wadham College

10.00–11.15: Panel 5 Karl Kinsella James Hillson

What is a Window? Description, Drawing and Architectural Transmission between France and England, 1200–1400

Sebastian Fitzner Building on the Body: Bags and Bag Frames as Micro-Architectures in the Late 15th Century

Gudrun Hardardottir

Architectural Elements in Medieval Icelandic Monastic Seals

11.15‒11.45: Coffee break

11.45–13.00: Panel 6 Hannah Bailey Conor O'Brien

Wilfrid’s Restoration of the Church at York in its Cultural and Social Context

Meg Boulton Flanked by Serpents, Carved in Stone, Encased in Lead: Considering the Symbolic Significance of Ecclesiastical Thresholds and Coverings in Anglo-Saxon Churches.

Tina Bawden Bounded and Unbounded space: Architectural Motifs and the Space of the Book in Early Medieval Narrative Manuscript Illumination

13.00–14.00: Lunch

14.00–15.00: Collaborative Session Involving all members of the conference coming together in groups to discuss the major issues under discussion

15.00‒15.30: Coffee break

15.30–16.45: Panel 7 Daniel Thomas Charmaine Manuel

From the Miroir des Dames to the Cité des Dames: Examining the Use of Architectural Allegories in Medieval French Didactic Literature Addressed to Women

Francis Leneghan

Bede, Alfred and the Reconstruction of the Anglo-Saxon Church

Mark Atherton

‘Trouble at Mill’: The Politics and Literature of Water-Mills in Anglo-Saxon Winchester

16.45–17.00: Short break

17.00–18.00: Keynote Two Introduced by Prof. Vincent Gillespie

Dr Christiania Whitehead University of Warwick Reading the Saint’s Church

18.00–18.15: Closing remarks

We would like to thank University College, Oxford and the John Fell

Fund for their generous support of the conference. We would also

like to thank the Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and

Literature and Oxford Medieval Studies for providing graduate

bursaries. Our thanks also to Katie MacCurrach for administrative

support, to the session chairs, and to our graduate assistants, Amy

Faulkner and Jamie Strawbridge.

—The Organizers Hannah Bailey, Karl Kinsella, Daniel Thomas, & Laura Varnam