{"id":701,"date":"2019-10-03T13:49:08","date_gmt":"2019-10-03T13:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/?p=701"},"modified":"2019-10-10T14:01:05","modified_gmt":"2019-10-10T14:01:05","slug":"thomas-becket-life-death-and-legacy-call-for-papers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/2019\/10\/03\/thomas-becket-life-death-and-legacy-call-for-papers\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Becket Life, Death, and Legacy &#8211; Call for Papers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman;font-size: medium\">We would like to draw your attention to our call for papers for the international conference &#8216;<b>Thomas Becket: Life, Death, and Legacy<\/b>,&#8217; which will take place from <b>11\u201314 November 2020<\/b> in <b>Canterbury Cathedral<\/b>, coinciding with the 850th anniversary of his martyrdom and the 800th anniversary of the translation of his relics into the Trinity Chapel. This conference is co-organised by scholars at the Cathedral, Christ Church University, and the University of Kent, and we are very grateful to the British Academy for supporting us.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman;font-size: medium\">The Becket 2020 conference will be one of many cultural celebrations that commemorate and re-examine the legacy of Becket next year, so stay tuned for more news about exciting exhibitions, publications, research projects, and various public engagement events.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman;font-size: medium\">We would be delighted if you would please consider submitting an abstract to <u><a>CanterburyBecket2020@gmail.com<\/a><\/u> before the deadline on <b>21 October 2019<\/b>. We hope that your papers offer new, interdisciplinary approaches to the study of Becket (both locally at Canterbury and within a wider European context) and we want to offer an inclusive chronology of scholarship on Becket that stretches across<b> <i>medieval, early modern, and modern history<\/i><\/b>. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We would like to draw your attention to our call for papers for the international conference &#8216;Thomas Becket: Life, Death, and Legacy,&#8217; which will take &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/2019\/10\/03\/thomas-becket-life-death-and-legacy-call-for-papers\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34309,"featured_media":703,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124,70],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701"}],"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\/34309"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":704,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701\/revisions\/704"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}