St Wilfrid 1300th Anniversary Conference
10th and 11th September 2009
A celebration supported by the Dean and Chapter of York Minster, the Dean and Chapter of Ripon Cathedral, and the Rector and Churchwardens of Hexham Abbey.
Among the speakers will be Professor Richard Bailey (Emeritus Professor of Anglo-Saxon Civilisation, University of Newcastle), Paul Bidwell (Head of Archaeology, Tyne and Wear Museums), Eric Cambridge, Professor Thomas Charles-Edwards (Jesus College, Oxford), Dr Katy Cubitt (Department of History, University of York), Dr Richard Hall (Director of Archaeology, York Archaeological Trust), Dr Jane Hawkes (Department of History of Art, University of York), Professor Éamonn Ó Carragáin (Department of English, University College Cork), Professor Alan Thacker (Institute of Historical Research, SAS, University of London) and Professor Ian Wood (Department of History, University of Leeds).
The conference will take place in St William’s College, beside York Minster.
Conference Programme and Booking Information
The conference will be preceded by a Public Lecture in York Minster on the evening of Wednesday 9th September at 7.30pm
St Wilfrid – a European Anglo-Saxon
by
Professor Richard Bailey
(Emeritus Professor of Anglo-Saxon Civilization, University of Newcastle)
The Conference, to be held in St William’s College, York, will include
Thursday 10th September
09.15 – 09.55 Conference Registration
10.00 St Wilfrid; a man for his times?
Dr Katy Cubitt (Department of History, University of York)
10.45 Questions / discussion
11.00. Coffee
11.30 Rome and its churches in Wilfrid's time.
Professor Éamonn Ó Carragáin (Department of English, University College, Cork)
12.15. Questions / discussion
12.30 Lunch (not provided)
14.00 Wilfrid, the Frankish church and Merovingian politics
Professor Ian Wood (Department of History, University of Leeds)
14.45 Questions / discussion
15.00 Coffee
15.30 Wilfrid and the Celts
Professor Thomas Charles-Edwards (Jesus College, Oxford)
16.15 Questions /discussion
Friday 11th September
09.15 Ripon before and after Wilfrid
Dr Richard Hall (Director of Archaeology, York Archaeological Trust)
10.00 Questions / discussion
10.15 A new survey of the Hexham crypt and the source of its stonework
Paul Bidwell (Head of Archaeology, Tyne and Wear Museums)
11.00 Questions / discussion
11.15 Coffee
11.45 The sources for Wilfrid's architecture: Rome or Gaul?
Eric Cambridge
12.30 Questions / discussion
12.45 Lunch (not provided)
14.00 Sculpture with Wilfrid in mind: the art of stone carving in Deira
Dr Jane Hawkes (Department of History of Art, University of York)
14.45 Questions / discussion
15.00 Coffee
15.30 The cult of Wilfrid
Professor Alan Thacker (Institute of Historical Research, SAS, University of London)
16.15 Questions / discussion
16.30 Summing up
Professor Richard Bailey (Emeritus Professor of Anglo-Saxon Civilization, University of Newcastle)
17.00 Conference concludes.
 Please Note.
- The conference will meet in the Maclagan Hall, on the 1st floor of St William’s College. The only access is via a flight of stairs.
- The organizers cannot be held responsible for any unavoidable alterations to the conference programme.
Excursion
The conference will be followed on Saturday 12th September by a coach excursion to Wilfrid’s foundations at Ripon and Hexham, and also to Escomb church, leaving York Memorial Gardens coach park at 8.30 a.m. and aiming to return by 6 p.m. Expert guides will be on hand to introduce and comment on features of particular interest.
Participants to provide their own snacks/provisions!
COSTS
The cost of each component of this celebration is as follows:
Public Lecture (Wednesday September 9): £5
Conference (Thursday and Friday, September 10-11): £50
Excursion (Saturday September 12): £20
Places on the excursion are limited. Initially, places can be made available only to individuals booking to attend the Conference. If there is spare capacity, this will be announced at the Public Lecture.
This is a non-residential conference. Delegates can obtain information about accommodation in York from York Tourism Bureau and various websites.
BOOKING
Bookings are being handled by the York Minster Box Office.
You may book:
You may pay by cash, cheque (payable to Dean and Chapter of York), or debit/credit card (there is a £1.50 surcharge for payment by credit/debit card). When sending a cheque, please include details of which event/s you are booking for, and enclose an s.a.e.
For those booking by telephone, email, or web, postage of tickets is charged at 50 pence.
And after the conference...
Professor Eamonn O'Carragain, having spoken at the Conference, will be running a seminar with the theme WILFRID, ACCA AND ROME from Friday 18th September to Friday 25 September inclusive, based at the British School at Rome. He hopes to get permission to visit, for example, the Catacomb of S. Valentino on the way to the Milvian Bridge, a catacomb which had just been renovated in Wilfrid's day, and also to pay great attention to the fragments of the Chapel of John VII (705-707) in St Peter's, in particular the spolia used in the chapel: the chapel must have been in place by the time the people sent to Rome by Wilfrid in 709 got there, and is likely to have impressed them (and, whether or not Wilfrid himself survived to hear their accounts of it, must have impressed Acca when they told him of it).
Anyone interested in going to Rome and participating in this seminar should address queries to Professor O'Carragain by emailing him at eoc@ucc.ie
|
