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Annual General Meeting

2023
4 Oct

Annual General Meeting

Venue: The Society of Antiquaries of London, Burlington House, Piccadilly W1J 0BE

2017
4 Oct

2017 Annual General Meeting

2015
7 Oct

Annual General Meeting

Venue: Society of Antiquaries

2013
2 Oct

2013 Annual General Meeting

Conferences

2023
29 Nov

2023 BAA postgraduate conference

4 Sep

Medieval Chichester: Cathedral, City and Surrounding Area: 4-8 September 2023

2022
20 Jul

Košice: Medieval Art and Architecture in Eastern Slovakia

BAA ANNUAL CONFERENCE: 20-24 JULY 2022

28 Mar

Image and Narrative in Romanesque Art

Venue: British School at Rome

2021
24 Nov

2021 Postgraduate Conference

Venue: This event will be held on Zoom

7 Sep

The Year 1000 in Romanesque Art and Architecture

Venue: Zoom

3 Jul

Ora Pro Nobis: Marian Devotion in the Middle Ages and Renaissance

An online day in honour of Dr Cathy Oakes

Venue: Zoom

11 Jan

‘Our Aelred’: Man, monk and saint

Venue: Zoom

2020
19 Nov

2020 Postgraduate Conference

19 Nov

2020 Postgraduate Conference

Venue: Zoom

2019
23 Nov

Postgraduate conference

Venue: The Gallery at Alan Baxter
77 Cowcross Street
London
EC1M

15 Jul

Medieval Art, Architecture and Archaeology in Shrewsbury and Mid-Shropshire

15-19 July 2019

2018
1 Sep

2018 Annual Conference in Cambridge

4 Apr

The Regional and Transregional in Romanesque Art and Architecture

Venue: Poitiers, France

2017
16 Jul

2017 Annual Conference in York

2016
16 Jul

2016 Annual Conference in Paris

4 Apr

2016 Romanesque Art, Oxford: Saints, Shrines and Pilgrimage

20 Feb

A Study Day in Celebration of the Work of Dr Richard K. Morris (1943-2015)

Medieval Art, Architecture and Archaeology

Venue: The Courtauld Institute of Art, The Strand, London, WC2R 0RN

2015
10 Jul

2015 Annual Conference in Peterborough

Peterborough Cathedral and the Soke of Peterborough

Venue: Rooms will be reserved at The Bull Hotel, Peterborough, which is located a 3-minute walk from the John Clare Theatre at which the conference lectures will be held. Both the hotel and lecture theatre are within a short walking distance of the Cathedral.

2014
19 Jul

2014 Annual Conference in Aberdeen

Aberdeen

7 Apr

2014 Romanesque Art: Patrons and Processes

A Three-Day International Conference concerned with Patronage in Romanesque Art and Architecture

Venue: Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, Barcelona

2013
20 Jul

2013 Annual Conference

Westminster: architecture, archaeology, sculpture and painting

2012
16 Apr

Romanesque and the Eastern Mediterranean

Venue: Palermo, Italy

2010
9 Apr

Romanesque and the Past

Retrospection in the Art and Architecture of Romanesque Europe

Venue: London

Lectures

2024
6 Mar

”Honey I shrank the church’: Scaling down Great Church designs during the long twelfth century’

Venue: Society of Antiquaries

7 Feb

‘Hellmouths, Human Remains and Holy Ground: Death, Resurrection and Insular Monuments’

Venue: Society of Antiquaries

3 Jan

‘The archaeology of the London Custom House site 50 years on. From Roman quays to Wren’s Custom House’, by Tim Tatton-Brown (The lecture will be followed by the Association’s Twelfth-Night Party)

Venue: Society of Antiquaries

2023
6 Dec

– ‘Art, History and Identity at San Millán de la Cogolla (7th-14th centuries)’

1 Nov

‘Seeing and being seen in an illuminated Tractatus Moralis de Oculo (c. 1274-1289)’

4 Oct

‘Reconstructing Bury St Edmunds Abbey’ (now online)

3 May

‘The Cosmati Mosaics at Westminster: Art, Politics, the Coronation and Exchanges with Rome in the Age of Gothic’

5 Apr

‘Intertextuality and Romanitas: Twelfth-Century Responses to Roman Antiquities’

1 Mar

‘Limoges Enamel Caskets in Medieval Spain: A Sensuous Experience’

1 Feb

‘The Sources of Viking Wealth: new results from lead isotope analysis of Viking silver hoards’

4 Jan

‘Opicinus de Canistris (1296–c. 1352) and Diagrams of Time in the Late Middle Ages’

2022
7 Dec

‘The Abbey of Santa Maria a Mare, San Nicola di Tremiti: an important early Romanesque monument all but lost at sea’

2 Nov

‘The Chantry Chapels of Cardinal Beaufort and Bishop Waynflete in Winchester Cathedral’

5 Oct

‘”An Open and Shut Case”: Displaying Medieval Art in Private Collections’

4 May

Gothic Networks: Juan Guas in Fifteenth-Century Spain

6 Apr

Building the Parish Church 1150-1300

2 Mar

Writing Weaving at Sankt Klara, Nuremburg: A Consideration of Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek, Cod. Guelf. 57 Aug.8

2 Feb

Antiquarian Societies and Scholarly Networks: Collectors, Curators and Conferences

5 Jan

Early Irish Sculpture and the Art of the High Crosses (online lecture)

2021
1 Dec

The Henry of Blois Enamels: A(nother) Reassessment

3 Nov

Life and Government in Royal Castles in the Long Thirteenth Century

6 Oct

From defacement to revivification: a digital-archaeological approach to illuminating the nave paintings of St Albans Cathedral

5 May

Women and the built environment in late medieval Scotland

7 Apr

Tracing the past: 3-D analysis of medieval vaults

3 Mar

Angels on the edge: constructing sacred space in the art and architecture of early medieval England

3 Feb

Living legends: the art of adventure in English manuscripts c. 1240-1340

6 Jan

Three historical oddities, from the fall of the Roman empire to the BC/AC divide and the continent of Europe

2020
2 Dec

‘The face of one making for Jerusalem’: The Angel Choir of Lincoln Cathedral and Joy

4 Nov

The medieval stained glass at Holy Trinity, Long Melford

Venue: Zoom

7 Oct

The Fabric Accounts of St Stephen’s Chapel, Westminster

The lecture will be preceded by the Association's Annual General Meeting and followed by the President's Reception

Venue: Online, via Zoom

16 Mar

‘Sculpture in Roman Britain and its Continental Context’

The lecture will be followed by the President's Reception

11 Mar

‘Plan and Elevation: Twelfth-Century drawings of Architecture’

4 Mar

‘A Royal Palisade for Harald Bluetooth: New Results from Recent Excavations in Jelling (Denmark)’

5 Feb

‘Home and Garden in the Cities of Early Medieval Italy

6 Jan

‘Recent Work on the Monastic Buildings at Westminster Abbey’

The lecture will be followed by the Twelfth-Night Party

2019
4 Dec

‘From Masons’ Marks to Parish Records: A Medieval Church in Context’

6 Nov

‘Invention and Reinvention: Trinitarian Iconography in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries’

2 Oct

‘Linearity and the Gothic Style: Architectural Conception in England and France, 1200-1400’

The lecture will be preceded by the Association's Annual General Meeting

1 May

‘What will survive of us is love’: Image and Emotion in Late-Medieval England

3 Apr

Displaying the Bayeux Tapestry: Then and Now

6 Mar

Cluny in England: Reflections on Castle Acre, Lewes and Wenlock

6 Feb

The Visual Culture of a Byzantine Province: The Archdiocese of Bari and Canosa

7 Jan

Perpetual Light: Illumination, Commemoration and Power at Norwich Cathedral in the Late Middle Ages

2018
5 Dec

Nostalgia for the Recent Past: Reuse and Reinvention in Twelfth-Century Spain

7 Nov

The Lost Architecture of the English Priesthood? Reviewing the Anglo-Norman Evidence

3 Oct

The Visitatio Sepulchri in Medieval Iberia: Liturgy, Architecture, Imagery and Staging

2 May

Inventing Vaults in the Twelfth Century: Salamanca, al-Andalus, and France

4 Apr

Links across the North Sea: The twelfth-century treasure houses of Ripon and Trondheim cathedrals

7 Mar

“Awake thou that sleepest’: the Resurrection of Mary Magdalene in Central Europe’

7 Feb

The Romanesque Columns at Strzelno: New Perspectives

3 Jan

Woven Walls: Real and Fictive Textiles in Romanesque Church Interiors

2017
6 Dec

The English Parish Church Chancel as Architectural Genre

1 Nov

Lie of the Land: Fake History, Topography, and Albion’s Giants c1150-1800

4 Oct

Ways of Seeing Late Medieval English Art

3 May

‘The Late Medieval Master Mason as Manager; a New Assessment based on a Systematic Analysis of the English Cathedral Fabric Rolls’

Venue: The lecture will be followed by the President’s Reception

5 Apr

“See God Face to Face; Pray for the King’: The Late Medieval Painted Glass of Winchester Cathedral c1495-c1515’

1 Mar

‘The Medieval Glazing of Westminster Abbey: New Discoveries’

1 Feb

‘When is a Cathedral not a Cathedral? Typologies of Secular and Monastic in the English Great Church.’

4 Jan

‘The Great English Medieval Bridges: Designs and Functions.’

Venue: The lecture will be followed by the Association’s Twelfth-Night Party

2016
7 Dec

‘Monuments in Wax: Form and Function in Medieval Charters’

2 Nov

‘Architecture and Landscape at Restormel Castle, Cornwall’

5 Oct

‘Miraculous Ground Plans and the Liturgy of Building Sites in Late Medieval Italy’

Venue: Society of Antiquaries of London, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BE
Tea is served from 4.30 p.m. and the Chair is taken at 5.00 p.m.
The lecture will be preceded by the Association’s Annual General Meeting.

4 May

‘Reconstructing Henry III’s Great Chapel at Windsor Castle, 1240-48’’

6 Apr

‘Recent studies of the fabric of Exeter Cathedral’

2 Mar

‘”This house is a holy place”: Rievaulx Abbey, people and piety, c.1300-1538’

3 Feb

‘The Kailasa Temple at Ellora: rock-cut architecture and the realisation of buildings in the medieval period’

6 Jan

‘Excavations at Glastonbury Abbey, 1908-79: reassessing the medieval monastery.’

2015
2 Dec

‘Why Does Architectural Style Change? An Exploration using Fourteenth-Century Collegiate Churches.’

4 Nov

‘The Charles Bridge, Peter Parler and the First Bohemian Net Vault’

7 Oct

‘Southwell Minster’s Choir: A Gothic Vision of Archbishop Walter de Gray’

6 May

Places of Power and the Making of Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: New Archaeological Perspectives from Lyminge, Kent

2 May

Castle Acre

Study Day

Venue: Meet at Castle Acre at 11 a.m.

1 Apr

Britain’s Atlantic Wall? The Landscape of Coastal Defence during the Second World War

4 Mar

The Medieval Buildings of the Holy Cross Guild, Stratford-upon-Avon

4 Feb

The Cloister in Anglo-Norman England

The George Zarnecki Memorial lecture

7 Jan

Auxerre’s Cathedral choir and the Question of Regional Gothic Architecture in France

2014
3 Dec

‘Barbarous rude things.’ Paintings in the collection of the Society of Antiquaries of London: some new observations

5 Nov

The Function and Iconography of the Minstrels’ Gallery at Exeter Cathedral

Reginald Taylor essay medal lecture

Venue: The Linnean Society in Burlington House
(tea and lecture)

1 Oct

Friary biographies, urban fabric and the excavation legacy in England and Wales

7 May

Blanche of Castile and artistic patronage at the Capetian court in the first half of the thirteenth century

Preceded by BAA Council Meeting, and followed by the President's Reception

2 Apr

The Staffordshire Hoard Project: the current state of knowledge

5 Mar

Late Medieval Beguinages in the Low Countries: A ‘Poor’ Architecture for Semi-Religious Women

5 Feb

The Romanesque Portal as Performance

Preceded by BAA Council Meeting

2 Jan

‘The Labour of a Thousand Ants’: Gerard Baldwin Brown and the Conservation Movement in Britain

Note: this lecture takes place on a Thursday. To be followed by the Association's Twelfth-Night Party (booking required)

2013
4 Dec

Arguments, or an assessment of some differences of opinion in the study of medieval architectural history.

Preceded by BAA Council Meeting

6 Nov

Set in stone: inscribing civic memory and artistic identity in the cathedral of San Lorenzo in Genoa

Venue: Linnean Society, in Burlington House

2 Oct

‘It would have pitied any heart to see’: destruction and survival at Cistercian monasteries in northern England at the Suppression

The lecture will be preceded by the Association's Annual General Meeting and book launch

1 May

The Dignity of Friends: from the catacombs of Rome to the Ashmolean Museum Oxford

3 Apr

Commemoration and the development of the English Parish Church

6 Feb

From Judgement to Atonement: sculpture at Strasbourg, Lincoln and Naumberg

2 Jan

20th-century England: writing an aerial history

2012
5 Dec

The construction, deconstruction and reconstruction of an Anglo-Saxon church: the work of the Brixworth Archaeological Research Committee 1972-2012

7 Nov

The most lethal catastrophe in recorded history: an archaeology and history of the Black Death in London 1348-9

3 Oct

The Scottish parish churches project

2 May

Imagining Passion in Paris: A new study of the wall paintings of martyrdom in the Sainte-Chapelle

lecture followed by the President’s Reception

4 Apr

Inventing Romanesque Sculpture: patrons, artists, masons and art historians

7 Mar

Medieval Building Stone

1 Feb

Monumental and multi-lingual inscriptions in the city of Ani

4 Jan

Richard II and the Royal treasure

The lecture was followed by the Association’s Twelfth-Night Party

2011
7 Dec

Piety, politics and prestige: the friars and their patrons in late medieval Ireland

Venue: rooms of the Royal Astronomical Society, Burlington House

2 Nov

Creating and recreating the tombs to the Dukes of York in Fotheringhay Church

Venue: rooms of the Royal Astronomical Society, Burlington House

5 Oct

Birkbeck training excavations in Syon Park: the Bridgettine Abbey and the formal gardens of Syon House

preceded by the Association’s Annual General Meeting

4 May

Clues for a Spiritual Treasure Hunt: Indulgences in Pre-Reformation English Churches

6 Apr

Canterbury Cathedral: Liturgy and Architecture

2 Mar

Torre Abbey: From Premonstratensian house to Post-Dissolution mansion

2 Feb

From Langford to South Cerney: the Monumental Rood in late Saxon and Norman England

5 Jan

From a period with no name; Painting in France around 1000

2010
1 Dec

The Fernadez de Velasco: The History and Patronage of a Castilian Grandee Family, c.1369-1600

3 Nov

Prety Castel and Fair Place: New Thoughts on Tretower Castle and Court

6 Oct

Donald Strong Lecture ‘Design and Construction in Roman Architecture’

5 May

Stiffs and Stones: Brothers, Bodies and Burials in the Medieval Italian City

7 Apr

Pavilion’d in Splendour: Henry V’s Welcome into London in 1415

3 Mar

Sir Goddard Pemberton and the Fear of Oblivion

3 Feb

The Sculpture of the East End of Cluny III

6 Jan

New Light on the English Peasantry: The Furnishings of Rural Houses in the Later Middle Ages

2009
2 Dec

Medieval Floor Tile Studies in Europe: Between Archaeology and Art History

4 Nov

Romanesque Linear Measures used in England and on the Continent

7 Oct

The Architecture of Cardinals’ Seals in the Thirteenth Century

6 May

Nottingham Castle, A Noble Castle of the Duke of New Castle

1 Apr

Markenfield Hall: The Early House inside the Later

4 Mar

Whose Heritage? The Problem of the Shobdon Arches

4 Feb

Social Transformations around the North Sea and Western Baltic AD600-1100: Perspectives from Flixborough and Stavanger

7 Jan

The Miracles of St Dunstan: Hagiography and History in 14th-Century English Art

Parties

2015
7 Jan

2015 Twelfth-Night Party

Venue: Foyer and Council Room of the Society of Antiquaries

2014
7 May

2014 President’s Reception

The annual President's Reception to mark the final lecture of the series for 2013-2014.

Venue: Society of Antiquaries of London

Study Days

2022
21 May

Margam Park: A Story of Continuity

2020
5 Dec

Virtual Study Day: Google Earth for Architectural Historians

Venue: Zoom

2018
10 Nov

Norwich Study Day: Stone carving and archaeology

2 Jun

Study Day: Rievaulx Abbey

Venue: Rievaulx Abbey

2017
28 Oct

Study Day: Windsor Castle

20 May

Study Day: Abergavenny Priory

20 May

BAA Study Day: Abergavenny Priory

2015
26 Nov

Opus Anglicanum – in London collections

2014
6 Oct

Lincoln Cathedral: making and remaking

Study Day led by Professor Philip Dixon

17 May

Llancarfan and Llantwit Major

Vale of Glamorgan, Wales

2013
15 Oct

Alabaster and Ivory in the Late Medieval Collections at the British Museum

Led by Lloyd de Beer, Curators of Late Medieval Collection at the British Museum, and Professor Sandy Heslop, University of East Anglia

21 May

Southwell Minster

Venue: Southwell Minster