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Looking ahead to Battle 2009 July 25, 2009

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Next week sees my third, and hopefully final, conference of the summer – the Battle Conference on Anglo-Norman Studies 2009. Last year I commented on my experience of a past Battle and why I hadn’t been back to the conference for eight years. I also reported on what a good conference Battle 2008 turned out to be. This year, the conference will be in Gregynog (Powys) due to the closure of Pyke House. The observant among you will have noticed the slight change from my normal conference previews: I’m giving a paper this year and will no doubt look forward to the conference in retrospect! (more…)

IMC 2009 report July 19, 2009

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I’ve survived another Leeds (my 8th I believe) and thankfully, it was better than last year’s, both in terms of quality and weather. I still have some concerns about the over-use of case studies, but more of those later. I failed miserably to make it to either bloggers’ meeting due to double-booking myself and a successful round table: I’m sure Magistra et Mater and Jonathan Jarrett will update everyone on that score (the bloggers, not the roundtable). (more…)

IMS Paris 2009 symposium report July 7, 2009

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I have been in writing purdah in preparation for Battle at the end of the month, so this post is rather late in they day. For what it is worth, here are my thoughts on the International Medieval Society’s, Paris annual symposium. (more…)