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CeSMA
The Centre for the Study of the Middle Ages (CeSMA)
facilitates academic research into the Middle Ages, from
c.300 to c.1500 AD, which cuts across traditional
disciplinary boundaries and unites historians, archaeolo-
gists, literary scholars, linguists, and other scholars and
students who study medieval societies and cultures.
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CREMS
The Centre for Reformation and Early Modern Studies
(CREMS) is a centre of excellence at the University of
Birmingham for interdisciplinary research into the
history of the Reformation and early modern Britain and
Europe.
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index.aspx
@CREMS_bham
Annual Symposium 2016
5-6 May
University of Birmingham, Arts
Building, Lecture Room 3
Chaos and Catastrophe;
Restoration and Renewal
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Early Medieval– Medieval– Renaissance– Reformation– Early Modern
Day One, Thursday 5 May
10.30– 11.30 Registration
11.30-13.00 Providence and Tragedy
Chair: Tayler Meredith
1 .Polly Duxfield, UoB, '1275: The Catastrophic Year of Alfonso the Wise (1252-
1284) and its Effects on the Rest of his Reign'
2. Kibrina Davey, Sheffield Hallam, ‘Preventing the Green Eyed Monster:
Potential Othellos in Shakespeare's Tragicomedies'
3. Jason R. Varner, St. Andrews, ‘Making sense of chaos: Puritain narrative
cosmology in the experience of King Philip's War'
13.00-14.00 Lunch (Danford Room)
14.00-16.00 Conflict and Rhetoric in 10th-14th century East Asia
Chair: Lance Pursey
1. Jonathan Dugdale, UoB, ‘Just a Kitan Dynasty Living in a Chinese World:
Reconstructing the Political and Religious Networks of Post-Tang East Asia’
2. Chen Xue, UoB, ‘Rebels and Rebellions: The Identities and Boundaries in the
10th and 11th Century Chinese Historiography’
3. Lance Pursey UoB, ‘Ethnicity and Emplotment at the end of an Empire’
4. Geoffrey Humble, UoB, ‘Stories for Harmony? Biography, Conflict and
Resolution Across Mongol China’
Call for Blog Posts
Are you looking for the chance to get writing? Want to
practice book reviews, conference reports of blog
posts? Then EMREM has the opportunity for you!
If you would like to write a short account of an aspect
of your research (about your aims, ideas or sources), a
conference or seminar report that would be interesting
to the group, or perhaps a book review, please get in
touch!
Call for Papers for next academic year
The EMREM Forum is run by postgraduate students
from the University of Birmingham and is designed
to facilitate discussion amongst postgraduate stu-
dents who are interested in the Early Medieval-
Medieval-Renaissance-Reformation-Early
Modern period. The Forum aims to generate an
informal atmosphere in which postgraduates (and
staff!) can share their research and participate in
interdisciplinary and cross-period debate. We wel-
come members from all institutions and disciplines.
Papers are invited for the 2015- 16 academic years
Research Presentation Sessions. These will be held
during our Monday sessions.
Papers should be 30 minutes in length. Please send
proposals of approximately 300 words
16.00-16.30 Tea Break
16.30-18.00 Byzantine Succession and Networks of Support
Chair: Francisco Lopez-Santos Kornberger
1. Joseph Parsonage, UoB 'Marriage, Regency and Succession in Middle
Byzantine Dynastic Strategy - Crisis and Renewal in the Imperial
Family'
2. Niccolo Fattori, Royal Holloway, 'With a Little Help from My Friends:
Networks of Mutual Support in the Communities of the Greek Diaspora
(16th c.)'
3. Onur Usta, UoB, ‘'From Catastrophe to Crisis: A Reconsideration of
the Desert and Sown Paradigm in Relation to the Nomads of Asia Mi-
nor, (11th-13th and late 16th-early 17th centuries)’
18.00-19.30 Wine Reception, Sponsored by the Centre for the Study of
the Middle Ages at the University of Birmingham
20.00-23.00 Conference Dinner
Day Two, Friday 6 May
10.00-10.30 Registration
10.30-12.00 Writing Lives and Ars Moriendi
Chair: Emily Buffey
1. Melanie Peters-Turner , UoB, 'For the Divine Service which is to be
Said for my Soul;: Testamentary evidence for Memorialisation in the
Middling Classes’
2. Charles Green, UoB , ‘’The Death of all Arts’: Adapting Donne’s
Apocalyptic Topoi in his Posthumous ‘Poems’ (1633)’
3. Alison Passe, Aberdeen, ‘The Multiple Deaths of Antony’
12.00-13.00 Lunch (Danford Room)
13.00-14.30 The Book as an Object of Reform
Chair: Matthew Collins
1. Claire Harrill, UoB, ‘Royal Restoration: St Margret of Scotland and the
Scottish Royal Line in the 'Dunfermline' Manuscript’’
2. Morvern French, St Andrews, '’Ostentatious by nature': Flemish
Material Culture, Conspicuous Consumption and Anglo-Scottish
Relations at the court of James IV’
3. Ruth Caddick, UoB, ‘Reforming the Older Scots Romance 'Clariodus'‘
14.30-15.00 Tea Break
15.00-16.30 Religious Reform, Heresy and Iconoclasm
Chair: Georgie Fitzgibbon
1. Ian Styler, UoB, ‘A Bishop, a Monk and a Saint and the Restoration
of Monasticism: How AEthelwold, AElfric and AEthelthryth
Influenced the Benedictine Reforms of the Late Tenth Century’
2. Mark Robinson, Nottingham Trent University, ‘The Council of
Avignon 1209: Pacification, Reform and the Albigensian Crusade’
3. Sally Wadsworth, UoB, ‘Defiance in the Face of God: The Case of
Henry Sherfield’
16.30, Closing Remarks and Refreshments