All are welcome to join for the first of a series of free, online workshops to discuss ongoing research in loyalty studies. The programme is below. Please get in touch with hboston@lincoln.ac.uk to receive the Zoom link.
Medieval Loyalty Research Network workshop: 2nd November 2024
13:00 Welcome and updates (Hannah and Chris)
13:05-14:30 Session 1: (Dis)loyalty and military service
Caroline Bourne, ‘Killed by the Treachery of his Own Men’: Disloyalty in Early Medieval Wales
Matthew Bennett, ‘Expressions of Loyalty in the Battle of Maldon Poem’
Josh Coulthard, ‘Conspiring Against the King’s Men: Corruption and Coercion in Fourteenth Century Cornwall’
14:30-14:45 Break
14:45-15:30 Session 2: Loyalty and polity
Michał Machalski, ‘Language of Loyalty at the Warsaw Trial, 1339’ (30 mins followed by discussion)
15:30-15:50 Break
15:50-16:35 Session 3: Works in progress
This session consists of 5-minute work in progress papers, with 30 minutes for discussion.
Eleanor Bailey, ‘The exchange of Allegiance and Mercy in Lancastrian lettres de rémission in France, 1417-1422′
Lili Scott Lintott, ‘‘A Single Emotion’? Distinguishing Grief and Anger in Accounts of Betrayal, Disagreement and Disloyalty’
Andrea Tarnowski, ‘Loyalty’s Emblems’
16:35-16:45 Short break
16:45-17:15 Roundtable: current work, methodologies and methods
17:15 End