Medieval Crusade Historian: Professor Peter Edbury Retirement Day
Starts: 12 December 2012
PETER EDBURY RETIREMENT DAY Wednesday 12 December 2012
2.00 Welcome – James Jenkins
2.05 Session 1
Hot-Shot lawyers and smart shoppers in the Kingdom of Jerusalem
Betty Binysh (Cardiff University)
The relationship between the garrison fort and rural settlements in the Cilician Kingdom of Armenia: A First Report
Dweezil Vandekerckhove (Cardiff University)
The Baronage of the Kingdom of Jerusalem After Hattin
Stephen Donnachie (Swansea University)
Moderator – Hannah Buckingham
3.00 Keynote 1
The Value of Fragments: A New Witness to the Old French Meliacin or Le Cheval de Fust
Dr Timothy Bolton (Sotheby’s)
Moderator – Betty Binysh
3.35 Coffee Break
3.55 Session 2
Turning a vir magnificus et illustris into a preudhome: representations of Godfrey of Bouillon in the Historia of William of Tyre and its Old French translation
Dr. Simon John (Check affiliation)
King John and the Crusades
Dr. Paul Webster (Cardiff University)
Knowledge of the Latin East and the Eastern Mediterranean in the early Chansons de geste
Simon Parsons (Royal Holloway)
Title:tbc
Dr. Steven Biddlecombe (Exeter University)
Moderator – Angelo Silvestri
5.05 Coffee Break
5.20 Keynote 2
The King of the Arabs
Professor John France (Swansea University)
Moderator – Mellissa Julian-Jones
6.00 Close
7.00 Dinner
The Aegean
72 - 74 WHITCHURCH ROAD, HEATH, SOUTH GLAMORGAN, CARDIFF, CF14 3LX
http://www.aegean-restaurant.co.uk/location.html
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Open To: Staff and Students