Meetings & Events: Conferences, Romanesque Conference
The British Archaeological Association was to have held the sixth in its biennial International Romanesque conference series in conjunction with the Dommuseum in Hildesheim in April, 2020. In the light of the Covid pandemic, it was necessary to postpone the conference, which will now take place online from 7-10 September, 2021. Register online here.
Tuesday 7 September
Chair: Gerhard Lutz
13.15 Welcome and Introduction
13.30 Cecily Hennessy – Otto III and the Widow Theophanu: A Greek Court in the West?
14.00 Barbara Franzé – Image and Society in Reichenau c. 1000
14.30 Jesús Rodríguez Viejo – Authorship, Cult and Monastic Reform in Ottonian St Gallen: The Decoration of the Hartker Antiphonary
15.00 Questions
15.30 Refreshment Break
Chair: Richard Plant
16.00 Marcello Angheben – The Representation of the Old Testament God in Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts
16.30 Sophie Kelly – Trinity and Transformation at the Turn of the Millenium
17.00 Shirin Fozi – Unpacking the Ottonian Sarcophagus 968-1022.
17.30 Questions
Wednesday 8 September
Chair: Alexandra Gajewski
13.30 Lindy Grant – Transforming the Kingdom: Artistic Patronage and the Establishment of Early Capetian Kingship in France
14.00 Eliane Vergnolle – A Monarch and his Buildings: The Case of Robert the Pious (996-1031)
14.30 Claude Andrault-Schmitt – The Birth of Romanesque Architecture in Aquitaine in the light of the Patronage of Duke William the Great (993-1031)
15.00 Questions
15.30 Refreshment Break
Chair: Ute Engel
16.00 Wilfried Keil – Willigis and his Cathedral: The Building of a New Coronation Church by the Archchancellor and Archbishop of Mainz
16.30 Tobias Schoo – The Domburg and the Market Town of Halberstadt around the Year 1000
17.00 Bruno Klein – St Michael at Hildesheim as a Magic Machine
17.30 Questions
Thursday 9 September
Chair: Manuel Castiñeiras
13.30 Hugh Doherty – Bernard of Angers at Aurillac: Viewing the Saints and their Treasures at the Turn of the Millenium
14.00 Florian Meunier – Precious Book Covers: Gold and Ivory between a Carolingian Heritage and New Patterns
14.30 Jordi Camps – Sculpture in Catalonia around 1000: The ‘Corinthian’ Capitals at Ripoll
15.00 Questions
15.30 Refreshment Break
Chair: Cecily Hennessy
16.00 Rose Walker – Order and Disorder as seen through the eyes of Scribes and Illuminators in the Kingdom of Pamplona c. 970-c. 1000
16.30 Elizabeth Valdez del Álamo – Art in Castile 970-1030: In Search of Political and Cultural Hegemony
17.00 Questions
Friday 10 September
Chair: Zoë Opacič
13.30 Tomasz Weclawowicz – The Imitation of the Empire in Early Medieval Poland
14.00 Agata Gomolka – When Gold was Silver and Silver was Straw: The Treasure of Saints and Warriors in Poland c. 1000
14.30 Béla Zsolt Szakács – The Year 1000 in Hungary: Turning Point or Continuation
15.00 Questions
15.30 Refreshment Break
Chair: John McNeill
16.00 Michele Vescovi – Looking North: Architecture in Emilia c. 1000
16.30 Richard Gem – England 970-1030: Architecture of the Monastic Reform
17.00 Eric Fernie – St Laurence at Bradford on Avon, St Michael at Hildesheim and the Use of Squares in Planning
17.30 Questions
18.00 Conclusion