The Fifteenth Century Conference 2024
St John’s College, Oxford, Thursday 5 – Saturday 7 September
The 2024 Fifteenth Century Conference was at St John’s College, Oxford, 5-7 September, organised by Dr. Rowena E. Archer and Dr. Laura Flannigan.
Programme (below, or download here)
Thursday 5th September
Noon Registration – Garden Quad foyer
2pm Welcome – Laura Flannigan
Session 1 – Benjamin Thompson, ‘Universality, Nationality and Locality: the Alien Priories and the Late-Medieval Church’
3.15pm Session 2 – Alice Raw, ‘Weaponising Women: Gender in the Crossfire in Late Medieval Urban Riots, 1320-1450’
4.15pm Tea
4.45pm Session 3 (double session – until 6:15pm)
Euan Roger, ‘St George’s College and the acquisition of St Anthony’s Hospital: Edward IV’s ‘New Foundation’ at Windsor re-considered’
Cindy Wood, ‘Clarendon Palace in the Fifteenth century – the demise of a major royal palace’
7.15pm Dinner in Hall
Friday 6th September
8am Breakfast in College Hall
9am Session 4 – Caitlin Williams, ‘‘This medicine mistres elisabeth horne did use and helpe manye’: Women and Domestic Medicine in the Fifteenth Century Household’
10.15am Session 5 – Laura Rosenheim, ‘The language of blood and royal kinship in late medieval England’
11.15am Tea & Coffee
11.45am Session 6 – Bridget Cox (Durham University): ‘Documentary, Scribal, and Record-Keeping Culture in Durham Cathedral Archive’
12.45pm Lunch – Garden Quad
2pm Session 7 (double session – until 3:30)
Gordon McKelvie: ‘The Conduct of Conflict in Late Medieval Scotland: The Rebellions of 1488 and 1489’
Lisa Cowan, ‘Judicial Liability: A Historical Analysis of Civilian Origins and Reception in 15th-century Scotland’
3.30pm St John’s Vestments Display and Talk (led by Hannah Skoda)
5.15pm Tea & Coffee
6.30pm Drinks reception, Garden Quad / Canterbury Quad
7.15pm Formal Conference Dinner in Hall
Saturday 7th September
8am Breakfast in College Hall
9am Session 8 – Lydia Fisher, ‘Illuminating Faith and Patronage: The Evidence of Stained-Glass Windows in the Parish Church’
10.15am Session 9 – Virginia Bainbridge, ‘Social Climbing in Fifteenth-Century England: Abbess Constance Browne of Syon and family patronage of elite religious institutions’
11.15am Tea & Coffee
11.45 am Session 10 – Sheila Sweetinburgh, ‘Networks inside and outside the cloister: cathedral chaplains and their books in late medieval Canterbury’
1pm Lunch
2pm Conference ends.