The Fifteenth Century Conference 2023
University of Winchester, Thursday 31 August – Saturday 2 September
Programme
Thursday 31 August
Session 1, 13.00-14.00
Welcome
Prof. Anne Curry (Southampton), “When the king heard of the death of the duke of Clarence, and of the others killed and captured in his company, he praised God, and thanked Him for his visitation of that affliction, just as he had praised and thanked Him for his earlier successes’. The battle of Baugé and Henry V’s last great army’
Session 2 – 14.15-15.45
Dr Simon Payling (History of Parliament), ‘A fluid élite? County MPs in the reign of Henry VI’
Dr Des Atkinson (Exeter), ‘The clergy of the Salisbury diocese across the fifteenth century – what does a newly completed database of ordination records tell us?’
Tea & accommodation check-in
Session 3 – 16:30-18:00
Dr Ted Powell (Independent scholar), ‘How do you solve a problem like the Hanse? Diplomacy and Litigation in the Reign of Edward IV’
Dr Ed Meek (Independent Scholar), ‘Ask that is right or that is honest’: Yorkist diplomacy in action and the Diet of Utrecht, 1473-4′
Friday 1 September
Session 4 – 09:00-10:30
Dr Daniel Gosling (TNA), ‘Chancery and the Church: ecclesiastical matters in equity suits in the fifteenth century’
Ebba Strutzenbladh (Aberdeen), ‘The Power of Women Through the Law: Familial Consent in Late Medieval Scotland’
Coffee
Optional outing to Winchester Cathedral – 10.45-12:45
Lunch 12:30-13.15
Session 5- 13:15-14:45
Dr Sean Cunningham (TNA), ‘Reacting to Regime Change: rivalries, restorations and political decision making on the Welsh Marches, 1485-7′
Prof. Michael Hicks (Winchester), ‘A Much Regulated Society; The Costs and Burdens of the Government of the Fifteenth-Century Counties’
Break
Session 6 – 15:15-16:45
Dr Malcolm Mercer (Royal Armouries), ‘Custom Made, Off the Shelf, and Parts: The Armour and Weapons Import Trade in Later Medieval England’
Kirsty Haslam (Aberdeen), ‘A Century of Continuity and a Decade of Change? The Development of Martial Infrastructure in Scottish burghs across the Fifteenth Century’
Tea
Session 7 – 17:15-18:45
Prof. Michael Brown (St Andrews), ‘D’Avoir guerre a quatre roys: The French attack on Sandwich (1457) in its context’
Dr Remy Ambuhl (Southampton), ‘Shameful and treasonable surrenders in the first half of the fifteenth century: The case of Rouen (1449) in context’
Saturday 2 September
Session 8 – 9:00-10.30
Dr Hannah Skoda (Oxford), ‘Student Misbehaviour in Fifteenth-Century Oxford and Paris’
Prof. Caroline Barron (Royal Holloway), ‘The Aldermen of London in 1446’
Coffee
Session 9 – 11:00-12:30
Catherine Gower (Nottingham Trent), ‘Dual Descent: Representing Henry VI’s claim to France in genealogical chronicles’
Prof. Neil Murphy (Northumbria), ‘Manifestos and the Ideology of Princely Rebellion in Fifteenth-Century France’
Lunch and departure