The Monumental Brass Society’s 2009 Conference:

 

Detail from the monumental brass of Bishop Robert Wyville (d. 1375)

 

4th – 6th September 2009

 

The 2009 Conference is based on the memorials at Salisbury Cathedral and is set in the broader context of commemoration for the clergy in the Middle Ages. Their role, both in meeting the needs of the living and of the dead, will be explored together with papers devoted to their own commemorative needs and in particular through memorials for the clergy. Similarities with other art historical representations of the clergy, such as their seals, will also be discussed.

 

The Conference will also include a visit to the parish church of St Thomas and the opportunity to see the important Webbe brass and also the restored Doom painting and the commemorative inscriptions and merchant marks on the beams of the church. Visits will also be made to St Martin’s to, see the Carpenter brass, and also to St Edmund’s and to see the brass of Henry Dove (d. 1616).

 

A tour of the Cathedral will also be included, led by the notable architectural historian, Tim Tatton-Brown. This will include the opportunity to see the magnificent Wyville brass and the collection of tombs of bishops of Salisbury.

 

Canons, Clergy and Churchmen

 

 

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Provisional lecture programme:

 

David Meara, St Bride’s Church, The Archdeacon’s Brass: Christopher Urswick of Hackney

 

Brian Kemp, University of Reading, 'The Early Funerary Monuments in Salisbury Cathedral

 

Nigel Saul, Royal Holloway University of London, The Monuments and Brasses in Salisbury Cathedral

 

Cindy Wood, University of Winchester, The Cage Chantries of Salisbury Cathedral

 

Julia Boorman, University of Reading, Bishop Wyville’s brass

 

David Griffith, University of Birmingham, "He wayted after no pompe and reverence": commemoration of English secular clergy

 

Clive Burgess, Royal Holloway University of London, Obligations and Strategy: Managing Memory in the Late Medieval Parish

 

David King, University of East Anglia, The Indent of John Ayleward: Glass and Brass at East Harling, Norfolk

 

Martin Heale, University of Liverpool, The Funerary Monuments of Abbots and Priors in Late Medieval England

 

Elizabeth New, University of Aberystwyth, Grave Impressions: a comparison of the representation of bishops on seals and funerary monuments

 

Jerome Bertram, The Oxford Oratory, Vita Communis - the common life of the secular clergy as illustrated on their brasses and incised slabs

 

Christian Steer, Royal Holloway, University of London, The Canons of St Paul’s and their brasses

 

Conference Rates:

 

  

 

 

 

 

To reserve a place please complete the downloadable form and return with your deposit, which is non-refundable, of £50.00 per person made payable to ‘Monumental Brass Society’ to Rupert Webber, Poachers Rest, Park Farm, Ruardean, Gloucestershire, GL17 9US. E-mail: r.c.r.webber@rhul.ac.uk

 

The remainder of the Conference fee can be paid by installments with the final balance to be paid by 31st May 2009.