The Monumental Brass Society Conference

2009

Canons, Clergy and Churchmen

 

Sarum College, Salisbury

Friday 4th – Sunday 6th September 2009

 

The Monumental Brass Society’s 2009 conference is on ‘Canons, Clergy and Churchmen’ and will be held at Sarum College, Salisbury, 4th-6th September 2009.

 

As well as visits to a number of city churches, the conference will also include a tour of Salisbury Cathedral led by the architectural historian, Tim Tatton-Brown. Delegates will have the opportunity to explore the cathedral following the tour and in particular to admire the magnificent fourteenth century monumental brass to Bishop Robert Wyville (d. 1375), an illustration of which is on this flyer. The conference will

feature the following lectures from both members of the Monumental Brass Society and scholars who are currently working on aspects of clerical commemoration:

 

Brian Kemp (University of Reading) Three Bishops Tombs in the Cathedral,

 

Cindy Woods (University of Winchester) The Cage Chantries of Salisbury Cathedral,

 

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

 

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

 

Jerome Bertram (The Oxford Oratory) Vita Communis - the common life of the secular clergy,

 

Christian Steer (Royal Holloway, University of London) The Canons of St Paul’s,

 

David Griffith (University of Birmingham) "He wayted after no pompe and reverence": commemorative inscriptions of English parish priests,

 

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

 

A booking form will be uploaded onto this page in February 2009. Should you have any queries regarding the conference please e-mail Christian Steer, c.steer@rhul.ac.uk