For those members of the Network at Leeds IMC 2024, we are having a meet-up in the Old Bar at 21:00 on Monday. All are warmly welcomed.
We are also running a Roundtable at 9am on Tuesday morning. This session will reflect on the ideas raised by the conference on Loyalty in the Medieval World, held at Lincoln University in April 2024, and on the IMC Loyalty sessions of the last few years. Drawing on discussions carried on there and subsequently, speakers working on varied regions and with source material ranging from administrative to vernacular narratives to material culture, will examine the emerging questions and methodologies in studies of loyalty. What has been learnt so far? What methodologies are being developed and how can they be refined? And what are the directions for future research?
Participants include Matthew Bennett (Independent Scholar), Hannah Boston (University of Lincoln), Chris Lewis (Institute of Historical Research, University of London), Jenny McHugh (Lancaster University), and David Stocker (University of Leeds).