Monasteries on the borders of medieval Europe: new perspectives
Conference programme
School of History, University of Leeds
Grant Room, Michael Sadler Building (room 311)
Thursday 11 September
8:30 – 9:00
What is this conference about? – opening remarks
Session I: Ireland, Scotland and the Norman world (chair: Anna Müller, FOVOG,
Katholische Universität Eichstätt)
9:00 - 9:35
Edel Bhreathnach (University College Dublin), Protecting a tradition and lands: how
early medieval Irish monasteries reacted to a twelfth-century reform movement and
the coming of the Anglo-Normans
9:35-10:10
Kimm Curran (University of Glasgow), Conflict and Co-operation: Female Religious
Houses on the Frontiers in Britain.
10:10-10:45
Kathryn Dutton (University of Glasgow), The assertion of identity, authority and
legitimacy: the county of Maine and the religious patronage of Fulk V and Geoffrey V
of Anjou, 1110-1151
10:45-11:15 Coffee break
Session II: Wales (chair: to be confirmed)
11:15-11:50
Brian Golding (University of Southampton), Piety, Politics and Plunder: sacra furta
on the Anglo- Welsh frontier
11:50- 12:25
Andy Abram (University of Wales, Lampeter), The Monastic Benefactions of the
Native Rulers of North Wales on the Welsh Borders
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch (various options on campus)
Session III: Scandinavia (chair: to be confirmed)
14:00- 14:35
Marie Holmström (Swedish National Heritage Board, Stockholm), Worldly Power
and the Kingdom of Heaven
Continental Connections and Changing Liaisons in Medieval Alvastra and the diocese
of Linköping
14:35-15:10
Philip Line (Helsinki), Nydala Monastery – Cistercian Ideal or Royal Power Centre?
15:10-15:45
Christian Krötzl (University of Tampere), Different Rules on the Borders? Cistercians
and the Baltic Mission in the 12th and 13th Centuries
15:45-16:15 Coffee break
16:15 – 16:50
Steinunn Kristjánsdóttir (University of Iceland & National Museum of Iceland),
Skriðuklaustur friary a colony of religiosity and culture in medieval Iceland
19:00 Conference dinner (Devonshire Hall)
Friday 12 September
Session IV Central Europe (chair: Emilia Jamroziak)
8:30 – 9:05
Hans-Joachim Schmidt (Université de Fribourg, Switzerland), Frontiers of mendicant
orders in contest between Germany and Poland during the late middle ages
9:05 – 9:40
Paul Milliman (University of Arizona), Boundary Narratives and State Formation on
the Frontier of Latin Christendom: The Early Fourteenth-Century Disputes between
the Kingdom of Poland and the Teutonic Ordensstaat
9:40 – 10:15
Ana Novak (Croatian Institute for History, Zagreb), Castrum Thopozka on the borders
of Christianity – an example of a fortified Cistercian Abbey
10:15- 10:45 Coffee Break
Session V: Catalonia, Brittany and Greece (chair: to be confirmed)
10:45 – 11:20
Karen Stöber (University of Wales, Aberystwyth), Religious and society on the
borders of Christianity: the regular canons in medieval Catalonia
11:20 - 11:55
Kati Ihnat (Queen Mary, University of London), Staging the Jew: Drama and Identitybuilding in twelfth-century Laon
11:55 – 12:30
Nicky Tsougarakis (University of Leeds), Religious Patronage in Frankish Greece
12:30 - 13:00 Round table discussion
13:00 Lunch (optional, various options on campus) and departure