Medieval Loyalty Research Network workshop, 6th June 2025

All are welcome to join for this free, online workshop discussing ongoing work in the network. The programme is below. Please get in touch with hboston@lincoln.ac.uk to receive the Zoom link.

Programme

13:00 Welcome and updates on the Research Network (publications, Reading Group, and Leeds IMC)

13:15 Session 1: Familial and seigneurial loyalties

Niall Ó Súilleabháin (Université de Poitiers/CNRS): Familial and Seigneurial Loyalties in Conflict: Two Servile ‘Revolts’ in Picardy, c. 1100 (10 mins) 

Caroline Bourne (University of Reading): Loyalty and Kingship: Edward the Confessor’s Actions Towards his Wife and Mother (20 mins) 

14:05 Break

14:15 Session 2: Loyalty and language 

Max Lieberman: (University of Zurich), Loyalty in translation: Benoît’s rendering of loyalty-related words and passages from Dudo of Saint-Quentin’s Historia Normannorum (30 mins) 

15:00 Break 

15:10 Session 3: Loyalty and rebellion I

Michał Machalski (Central European University, Vienna): The Assassination of Leszek the White by the Coward Władysław Odonic (?): Remembering Deceit in Fragmented Poland (20 mins) 

Ryan Kemp (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Bonn): Loyalty and rebellion in twelfth-century England and Germany (15 mins) 

16:00 Session 4: Work in progress

Natasha Jenman (University of Oxford): Work in progress: Theorising Community Ties of English Jews, c.1154-1290 (5 mins)

16:15 Break 

16:30 Session 5: Loyalty and rebellion II 

Andy King (University of Southampton): The Percies and Henry IV: Faith, Loyalties and Rebellion (30 mins) 

17:15 Open discussion  

17:30 Meeting ends 

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