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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
The Association’s AGM will be held directly before the start of the lecture
Venue: Society of Antiquaries
2014
1 Oct
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
English Heritage and the British Archaeological Association
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
Conference Convenors, Jordi Camps and Manuel Castiñeiras
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
2023
6 Dec
– ‘Art, History and Identity at San Millán de la Cogolla (7th-14th centuries)’
Dr Maeve O'Donnell (University of Bristol)
1 Nov
‘Seeing and being seen in an illuminated Tractatus Moralis de Oculo (c. 1274-1289)’
Dr Róisín Astell (University of York)
4 Oct
‘Reconstructing Bury St Edmunds Abbey’ (now online)
Dr Steven Brindle (English Heritage)
3 May
‘The Cosmati Mosaics at Westminster: Art, Politics, the Coronation and Exchanges with Rome in the Age of Gothic’
Professor Paul Binski (Cambridge University) and Professor Claudia Bolgia (Università di Udine)
5 Apr
‘Intertextuality and Romanitas: Twelfth-Century Responses to Roman Antiquities’
Dr William Kynan Wilson, The Open University
1 Mar
‘Limoges Enamel Caskets in Medieval Spain: A Sensuous Experience’
Dr Jitske Jasperse, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
1 Feb
‘The Sources of Viking Wealth: new results from lead isotope analysis of Viking silver hoards’
Dr Jane Kershaw, Oxford University
4 Jan
‘Opicinus de Canistris (1296–c. 1352) and Diagrams of Time in the Late Middle Ages’
Dr Sarah Griffin, Lambeth Palace Library
2022
7 Dec
‘The Abbey of Santa Maria a Mare, San Nicola di Tremiti: an important early Romanesque monument all but lost at sea’
Dr Francis Woodman, Cambridge University
2 Nov
‘The Chantry Chapels of Cardinal Beaufort and Bishop Waynflete in Winchester Cathedral’
Jane Stewart, Courtauld Institute of Art
5 Oct
‘”An Open and Shut Case”: Displaying Medieval Art in Private Collections’
Dr Paul Williamson, Keeper Emeritus, Victoria and Albert Museum
4 May
Gothic Networks: Juan Guas in Fifteenth-Century Spain
Dr Costanza Beltrami, University of Oxford
6 Apr
Building the Parish Church 1150-1300
Dr Meg Bernstein, University of York
2 Mar
Writing Weaving at Sankt Klara, Nuremburg: A Consideration of Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek, Cod. Guelf. 57 Aug.8
Dr Megan McNamee, Edinburgh University
2 Feb
Antiquarian Societies and Scholarly Networks: Collectors, Curators and Conferences
Dr Naomi Speakman, British Museum
5 Jan
Early Irish Sculpture and the Art of the High Crosses (online lecture)
Professor Roger Stalley, Trinity College, Dublin
2021
1 Dec
The Henry of Blois Enamels: A(nother) Reassessment
Dr John Munns, Magdalene College, Cambridge
3 Nov
Life and Government in Royal Castles in the Long Thirteenth Century
Professor Lindy Grant and Dr Jeremy Ashbee
6 Oct
From defacement to revivification: a digital-archaeological approach to illuminating the nave paintings of St Albans Cathedral
Prof. Michael Michael, Hon. Fellow, University of Glasgow
5 May
Women and the built environment in late medieval Scotland
Dr Rachel Delman, University of York
7 Apr
Tracing the past: 3-D analysis of medieval vaults
Dr Alexandrina Buchanan, Dr Nicholas Webb and Dr James Hillson, Liverpool University
3 Mar
Angels on the edge: constructing sacred space in the art and architecture of early medieval England
Dr Meg Boulton, Edinburgh College of Art
3 Feb
Living legends: the art of adventure in English manuscripts c. 1240-1340
Dr Amy Jeffs, University of Cambridge
6 Jan
Three historical oddities, from the fall of the Roman empire to the BC/AC divide and the continent of Europe
Professor Eric Fernie, Courtauld Institute of Art
2020
2 Dec
‘The face of one making for Jerusalem’: The Angel Choir of Lincoln Cathedral and Joy
Katherine Turley, Birkbeck College
4 Nov
The medieval stained glass at Holy Trinity, Long Melford
Anna Eavis, English Heritage
Venue: Zoom
7 Oct
The Fabric Accounts of St Stephen’s Chapel, Westminster
Professor Tim Ayers, University of York
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’
Penny Coombe, Wolfson College, Oxford
The lecture will be followed by the President's Reception
11 Mar
‘Plan and Elevation: Twelfth-Century drawings of Architecture’
Dr Karl Kinsella, Lincoln College, Oxford
4 Mar
‘A Royal Palisade for Harald Bluetooth: New Results from Recent Excavations in Jelling (Denmark)’
Dr Anne Pedersen, National Museum of Denmark
5 Feb
‘Home and Garden in the Cities of Early Medieval Italy
Dr Caroline Goodson, University of Cambridge
6 Jan
‘Recent Work on the Monastic Buildings at Westminster Abbey’
Tim Tatton-Brown, Buildings Archaeologist
The lecture will be followed by the Twelfth-Night Party
2019
4 Dec
‘From Masons’ Marks to Parish Records: A Medieval Church in Context’
Dr Nick Trend, University of East Anglia
6 Nov
‘Invention and Reinvention: Trinitarian Iconography in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries’
Dr Sophie Kelly, Royal Collection Trust
2 Oct
‘Linearity and the Gothic Style: Architectural Conception in England and France, 1200-1400’
Dr James Hillson, University of Liverpool
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
Dr Jessica Barker, The Courtauld Institute of Art
3 Apr
Displaying the Bayeux Tapestry: Then and Now
Professor Christopher Norton, University of York
6 Mar
Cluny in England: Reflections on Castle Acre, Lewes and Wenlock
John McNeill
6 Feb
The Visual Culture of a Byzantine Province: The Archdiocese of Bari and Canosa
Dr Clare Vernon, Birkbeck College
7 Jan
Perpetual Light: Illumination, Commemoration and Power at Norwich Cathedral in the Late Middle Ages
Dr Zachary Stewart, Texas A&M University
2018
5 Dec
Nostalgia for the Recent Past: Reuse and Reinvention in Twelfth-Century Spain
Dr Rose Walker, Courtauld Institute of Art
7 Nov
The Lost Architecture of the English Priesthood? Reviewing the Anglo-Norman Evidence
Dr Jill A. Franklin, Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland
3 Oct
The Visitatio Sepulchri in Medieval Iberia: Liturgy, Architecture, Imagery and Staging
Eduardo Carrero Santamaria, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
2 May
Inventing Vaults in the Twelfth Century: Salamanca, al-Andalus, and France
Dr Tom Nickson, Courtauld Institute of Art
4 Apr
Links across the North Sea: The twelfth-century treasure houses of Ripon and Trondheim cathedrals
Dr Lesley Milner
7 Mar
“Awake thou that sleepest’: the Resurrection of Mary Magdalene in Central Europe’
Dr Zoë Opačić, Birkbeck College
7 Feb
The Romanesque Columns at Strzelno: New Perspectives
Dr Agata Gomólka, University of East Anglia
3 Jan
Woven Walls: Real and Fictive Textiles in Romanesque Church Interiors
Dr Emma Edwards, Victoria & Albert Museum
2017
6 Dec
The English Parish Church Chancel as Architectural Genre
Dr James Alexander Cameron
1 Nov
Lie of the Land: Fake History, Topography, and Albion’s Giants c1150-1800
Dr Alixe Bovey, Courtauld Institute of Art
4 Oct
Ways of Seeing Late Medieval English Art
by Dr Julian Luxford, University of St Andrews
3 May
‘The Late Medieval Master Mason as Manager; a New Assessment based on a Systematic Analysis of the English Cathedral Fabric Rolls’
Christopher Paterson, University of Oxford
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’
Anya Heilpern, University of York
1 Mar
‘The Medieval Glazing of Westminster Abbey: New Discoveries’
Professor Richard Marks and Laura Atkinson, University of Cambridge and Canterbury Cathedral Stained Glass Studio
1 Feb
‘When is a Cathedral not a Cathedral? Typologies of Secular and Monastic in the English Great Church.’
Jon Cannon, University of Bristol
4 Jan
‘The Great English Medieval Bridges: Designs and Functions.’
by Dr David Harrison, International Bridges Group
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’
Dr Jessica Berenbeim, Magdalen College, Oxford
2 Nov
‘Architecture and Landscape at Restormel Castle, Cornwall’
Dr Jeremy Ashbee, English Heritage
5 Oct
‘Miraculous Ground Plans and the Liturgy of Building Sites in Late Medieval Italy’
Dr Lucy Donkin
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’’
by Dr Steven Brindle FSA, Historian, English Heritage
6 Apr
‘Recent studies of the fabric of Exeter Cathedral’
by John Allan FSA, Consultant Archaeologist, Exeter Cathedral
2 Mar
‘”This house is a holy place”: Rievaulx Abbey, people and piety, c.1300-1538’
by Dr Michael Carter, FSA, Senior Properties Historian, English Heritage
3 Feb
‘The Kailasa Temple at Ellora: rock-cut architecture and the realisation of buildings in the medieval period’
by Peter Draper FSA Visiting Professor, Birkbeck College, University of London
6 Jan
‘Excavations at Glastonbury Abbey, 1908-79: reassessing the medieval monastery.’
by Professor Roberta Gilchrist FSA, Research Dean, University of Reading
2015
2 Dec
‘Why Does Architectural Style Change? An Exploration using Fourteenth-Century Collegiate Churches.’
Andrew Budge, PhD Candidate, Birkbeck College, University of London
4 Nov
‘The Charles Bridge, Peter Parler and the First Bohemian Net Vault’
Dr Jana Gajdosova, Lecturer, University of Cambridge
7 Oct
‘Southwell Minster’s Choir: A Gothic Vision of Archbishop Walter de Gray’
by Dr Jeffrey Miller Lecturer, University of Cambridge
6 May
Places of Power and the Making of Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: New Archaeological Perspectives from Lyminge, Kent
Dr Gabor Thomas, School of Archaeology, Geographical and Environmental Science, University of Reading
2 May
Castle Acre
Rob Liddiard, Sandy Heslop, Helen Lunnon, Edward Impey, John McNeill, Jill Franklin and Jeremy Ashbee
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
Dr Robert Liddiard FSA, School of History at the University of East Anglia, Norwich
4 Mar
The Medieval Buildings of the Holy Cross Guild, Stratford-upon-Avon
Dr Kate Giles FSA, Department of Archaeology, University of York
4 Feb
The Cloister in Anglo-Norman England
John McNeill FSA, Oxford Univeristy, Department of Continuing Education
The George Zarnecki Memorial lecture
7 Jan
Auxerre’s Cathedral choir and the Question of Regional Gothic Architecture in France
Dr Alexandra Gajewski FSA, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Madrid
2014
3 Dec
‘Barbarous rude things.’ Paintings in the collection of the Society of Antiquaries of London: some new observations
Bernard Nurse FSA, Dr Pamela Tudor-Craig FSA and Dr Jill A Franklin FSA
5 Nov
The Function and Iconography of the Minstrels’ Gallery at Exeter Cathedral
Dr Gabriel Byng, Cathedral and Church Buildings Division, Church of England
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
Deirdre O’Sullivan, School of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Leicester
7 May
Blanche of Castile and artistic patronage at the Capetian court in the first half of the thirteenth century
Professor Lindy Grant FSA - Department of History, University of Reading
Preceded by BAA Council Meeting, and followed by the President's Reception
2 Apr
The Staffordshire Hoard Project: the current state of knowledge
Chris Fern FSA - Fern Archaeology
5 Mar
Late Medieval Beguinages in the Low Countries: A ‘Poor’ Architecture for Semi-Religious Women
Thomas Coomans - Faculty of Engineering: Department of Architecture, University of Leuven
5 Feb
The Romanesque Portal as Performance
by Professor Manual Castineriras - Department of Art and Musicology, Autonomous, University of Barcelona
Preceded by BAA Council Meeting
2 Jan
‘The Labour of a Thousand Ants’: Gerard Baldwin Brown and the Conservation Movement in Britain
Malcolm A. Cooper FSA, FSA (Scot) - Hon Research Fellow, School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh
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.
By Professor Eric Fernie FBA, FRSE, FSA, FSA (Scot) - Emeritus Courtauld Institute of Art
Preceded by BAA Council Meeting
6 Nov
Set in stone: inscribing civic memory and artistic identity in the cathedral of San Lorenzo in Genoa
Dr Stefania Gerevini - Lecturer, The Courtauld Institute of Art
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
Dr Michael Carter - Associate Lecturer, University of Kent
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
Dr Susan Walker
3 Apr
Commemoration and the development of the English Parish Church
Professor Nigel Saul
6 Feb
From Judgement to Atonement: sculpture at Strasbourg, Lincoln and Naumberg
Professor Paul Crossley
2 Jan
20th-century England: writing an aerial history
Dr Richard Morris
2012
5 Dec
The construction, deconstruction and reconstruction of an Anglo-Saxon church: the work of the Brixworth Archaeological Research Committee 1972-2012
Dr David Parsons
7 Nov
The most lethal catastrophe in recorded history: an archaeology and history of the Black Death in London 1348-9
Dr Barney Sloane
3 Oct
The Scottish parish churches project
Professor Richard Fawcett
2 May
Imagining Passion in Paris: A new study of the wall paintings of martyrdom in the Sainte-Chapelle
Dr Emily Guerry
lecture followed by the President’s Reception
4 Apr
Inventing Romanesque Sculpture: patrons, artists, masons and art historians
Professor Sandy Heslop
7 Mar
Medieval Building Stone
Tim Tatton-Brown
1 Feb
Monumental and multi-lingual inscriptions in the city of Ani
Dr Tony Eastmond
4 Jan
Richard II and the Royal treasure
Dr Jenny Stratford
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
Dr Colmán Ó Clabaigh
Venue: rooms of the Royal Astronomical Society, Burlington House
2 Nov
Creating and recreating the tombs to the Dukes of York in Fotheringhay Church
Dr Jenny Alexander and Sofija Matich
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
Harvey Sheldon
preceded by the Association’s Annual General Meeting
4 May
Clues for a Spiritual Treasure Hunt: Indulgences in Pre-Reformation English Churches
Professor Robert Swanson
6 Apr
Canterbury Cathedral: Liturgy and Architecture
Dr. Helen Gittos
2 Mar
Torre Abbey: From Premonstratensian house to Post-Dissolution mansion
Chris Thomas
2 Feb
From Langford to South Cerney: the Monumental Rood in late Saxon and Norman England
Professor Richard Marks
5 Jan
From a period with no name; Painting in France around 1000
Professor David Park
2010
1 Dec
The Fernadez de Velasco: The History and Patronage of a Castilian Grandee Family, c.1369-1600
Dr Steven Brindle
3 Nov
Prety Castel and Fair Place: New Thoughts on Tretower Castle and Court
Dr David Robinson
6 Oct
Donald Strong Lecture ‘Design and Construction in Roman Architecture’
Dr. Janet DeLaine
5 May
Stiffs and Stones: Brothers, Bodies and Burials in the Medieval Italian City
Professor Caroline Bruzelius
7 Apr
Pavilion’d in Splendour: Henry V’s Welcome into London in 1415
Dr Nicola Coldstream
3 Mar
Sir Goddard Pemberton and the Fear of Oblivion
Dr Phillip Lindley
3 Feb
The Sculpture of the East End of Cluny III
Neil Stratford
6 Jan
New Light on the English Peasantry: The Furnishings of Rural Houses in the Later Middle Ages
Professor Chris Dyer
2009
2 Dec
Medieval Floor Tile Studies in Europe: Between Archaeology and Art History
Professor Christopher Norton
4 Nov
Romanesque Linear Measures used in England and on the Continent
Harry Sunley
7 Oct
The Architecture of Cardinals’ Seals in the Thirteenth Century
Professor Julian Gardner
6 May
Nottingham Castle, A Noble Castle of the Duke of New Castle
Dr Trevor Foulds and Paul Drury
1 Apr
Markenfield Hall: The Early House inside the Later
Prof. Andor Gomme
4 Mar
Whose Heritage? The Problem of the Shobdon Arches
Dr. Ron Baxter
4 Feb
Social Transformations around the North Sea and Western Baltic AD600-1100: Perspectives from Flixborough and Stavanger
Dr Chris Lovelock
7 Jan
The Miracles of St Dunstan: Hagiography and History in 14th-Century English Art
Dr Alixe Bovey
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
David Robinson
2020
5 Dec
Virtual Study Day: Google Earth for Architectural Historians
Dr James Alexander Cameron
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
Steven Brindle and Tim Tatton Brown
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
Jane Rutherfoord & David Robinson
Vale of Glamorgan, Wales
2013
15 Oct
Alabaster and Ivory in the Late Medieval Collections at the British Museum
Lloyd de Beer and Naomi Speakman
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
Prof. Phillip Dixon
Venue: Southwell Minster