{"id":335,"date":"2015-02-09T11:14:26","date_gmt":"2015-02-09T11:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/?p=335"},"modified":"2015-02-09T14:31:21","modified_gmt":"2015-02-09T14:31:21","slug":"early-medieval-monasticism-conference-24-26-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/2015\/02\/09\/early-medieval-monasticism-conference-24-26-april\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Medieval Monasticism Conference (24-26 April)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Kent will host a conference in April to examine the theme of early medieval monasticism in the North Sea Zone from a variety of archaeological, historical and cross-disciplinary perspectives.\u00a0Entitled <strong>Early Medieval Monasticism: The North Sea Zone<\/strong>, the conference has\u00a0been designed in order to place the extraordinary recent excavations at Lyminge into context. It\u00a0includes some very distinguished speakers including John Blair, Rosemary Cramp, Rosamond Faith, Tomas O Carragain, Gabor Thomas, Ian Wood and Barbara Yorke. It is\u00a0an unmissable opportunity for those with early medieval interests or anyone who wants to learn more about Lyminge itself.<\/p>\n<p>2015 marks the conclusion of a major AHRC-funded campaign of excavation at Lyminge, the first archaeological investigation to provide a detailed account of the origins and development of a royal monastery in the kingdom of Kent. The results shed light on many themes central to the interpretation of early medieval monastic foundations in their contemporary contexts.<\/p>\n<p>The aim of the conference is to contextualise the results of this research by bringing together an international body of scholars to examine the theme of early medieval monasticism in the North Sea Zone from a variety of archaeological, historical and cross-disciplinary perspectives.<\/p>\n<p>Sessions include: \u2018Power and Place: the Politics of Monastic Foundation\u2019, \u2018What did Monasteries Look Like? Architecture and Layout\u2019, and \u2018Production, Consumption and Surplus: Monasteries as Economic Central Places\u2019. The conference will conclude with a round table discussion to identify priorities for future research and opportunities for new scholarly collaboration. There is an optional excursion to Lyminge and other local sites on Friday afternoon followed by a keynote address by Professor John Blair and a wine reception.<\/p>\n<p>Among confirmed speakers are:<\/p>\n<p>Justine Bayley (London), John Blair (Oxford), Rosemary Cramp (Durham), Rosamond Faith (Oxford), Zoe Knapp (Reading) Elizabeth Lorans (Tours), Mark McKerracher (Oxford), Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 Carrag\u00e1in (Cork), David Petts (Durham), Thomas Pickles (Chester), Gabor Thomas (Reading), Dries Tys (Brussels), Ian Wood (Leeds), Barbara Yorke (Winchester).<\/p>\n<p>Conference registration fee is \u00a342 which includes lunch and refreshments. The optional field trip to Lyminge is \u00a310 per person. Please go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lymingearchaeology.org\/\">www.lymingearchaeology.org<\/a> for details. Please contact <a href=\"mailto:a.knox@reading.ac.uk\">a.knox@reading.ac.uk<\/a> with inquiries.<\/p>\n<p>This conference is sponsored by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and project partners Kent Archaeological Society<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Kent will host a conference in April to examine the theme of early medieval monasticism in the North Sea Zone from a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/2015\/02\/09\/early-medieval-monasticism-conference-24-26-april\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34306,"featured_media":339,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34306"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":338,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions\/338"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}