Annual General Meeting

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

2017 Annual General Meeting

Annual General Meeting

The Association’s AGM will be held directly before the start of the lecture

Venue: Society of Antiquaries

2014 General Meeting

2013 Annual General Meeting

2024 BAA postgraduate conference

Roman and Medieval Art, Architecture and Archaeology in Pembrokeshire

Venue: Haverfordwest

Afterlives: Reusing the Past

Society of Antiquaries, BAA, and CRSBI

A Day of short papers to Celebrate the Life of Jill Franklin

Venue: Society of Antiquaries, London

Romanesque and the Monastic Environment – Valladolid

2023 BAA postgraduate conference

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

Košice: Medieval Art and Architecture in Eastern Slovakia

BAA ANNUAL CONFERENCE: 20-24 JULY 2022

Image and Narrative in Romanesque Art

Venue: British School at Rome

2021 Postgraduate Conference

Venue: This event will be held on Zoom

The Year 1000 in Romanesque Art and Architecture

Venue: Zoom

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

An online day in honour of Dr Cathy Oakes

Venue: Zoom

‘Our Aelred’: Man, monk and saint

English Heritage and the British Archaeological Association

Venue: Zoom

2020 Postgraduate Conference

Postgraduate conference

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

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

15-19 July 2019

2018 Annual Conference in Cambridge

The Regional and Transregional in Romanesque Art and Architecture

Venue: Poitiers, France

2017 Annual Conference in York

2016 Annual Conference in Paris

2016 Romanesque Art, Oxford: Saints, Shrines and Pilgrimage

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 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 Annual Conference in Aberdeen

Aberdeen

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 Annual Conference

Westminster: architecture, archaeology, sculpture and painting

Romanesque and the Eastern Mediterranean

Venue: Palermo, Italy

Romanesque and the Past

Retrospection in the Art and Architecture of Romanesque Europe

Venue: London

‘The Lost Cloister of Southwark Priory’

Dr Jackie Hall

Venue: Society of Antiquaries

‘The Püsterich of Sondershausen: Explosive Bronze Figures between Art and Science’

Professor Joanna Olchawa

Venue: Society of Antiquaries

‘The Antonine Itinerary and the Invention of Roman Britain’

Dr Alfred Hiatt

Venue: Society of Antiquaries

‘Crafting St Cuthbert: Narrative in the St Cuthbert Window, York Minster’

Dr Katharine Harrison

Venue: Society of Antiquaries

‘Crowd-funding in the Architectural Patronage of Late Medieval English Merchants’

Dr Nicola Coldstream

Venue: Society of Antiquaries

‘CoNUNdrum: Gleanings from 800 square metres of Salvage Excavation at the Cistercian Nunnery of St Theodore in Nicosia, Cyprus’

Dr Michalis Olympios

Venue: Society of Antiquaries

‘Newman University Church, Dublin: Faith, Flux and Utopian Medievalisms’

Dr Niamh Bhalla

Venue: Society of Antiquaries

‘The Calf and the Codex: Insular Manuscripts and the Use of Vellum’

Professor Joanna Story

The lecture will be preceded by the Association's AGM and followed by a reception

Venue: Society of Antiquaries

‘The Construction of Notre-Dame de Paris: Recent research, recent discoveries 2019-24’

Professor Yves Gallet

Venue: Society of Antiquaries

‘Tintern Abbey 1131−2031: Research and Conservation Ahead of a 900th Anniversary’

Dr David Robinson

Venue: Society of Anitqauries

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

Dr Eric Cambridge

Venue: Society of Antiquaries

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

Dr Heather Pulliam

Venue: Society of Antiquaries

‘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)

Tim Tatton-Brown

Venue: Society of Antiquaries

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

Dr Maeve O'Donnell (University of Bristol)

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

Dr Róisín Astell (University of York)

‘Reconstructing Bury St Edmunds Abbey’ (now online)

Dr Steven Brindle (English Heritage)

‘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)

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

Dr William Kynan Wilson, The Open University

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

Dr Jitske Jasperse, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

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

Dr Jane Kershaw, Oxford University

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

Dr Sarah Griffin, Lambeth Palace Library

‘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

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

Jane Stewart, Courtauld Institute of Art

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

Dr Paul Williamson, Keeper Emeritus, Victoria and Albert Museum

Gothic Networks: Juan Guas in Fifteenth-Century Spain

Dr Costanza Beltrami, University of Oxford

Building the Parish Church 1150-1300

Dr Meg Bernstein, University of York

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

Dr Megan McNamee, Edinburgh University

Antiquarian Societies and Scholarly Networks: Collectors, Curators and Conferences

Dr Naomi Speakman, British Museum

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

Professor Roger Stalley, Trinity College, Dublin

The Henry of Blois Enamels: A(nother) Reassessment

Dr John Munns, Magdalene College, Cambridge

Life and Government in Royal Castles in the Long Thirteenth Century

Professor Lindy Grant and Dr Jeremy Ashbee

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

Women and the built environment in late medieval Scotland

Dr Rachel Delman, University of York

Tracing the past: 3-D analysis of medieval vaults

Dr Alexandrina Buchanan, Dr Nicholas Webb and Dr James Hillson, Liverpool University

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

Dr Meg Boulton, Edinburgh College of Art

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

Dr Amy Jeffs, University of Cambridge

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

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

Katherine Turley, Birkbeck College

The medieval stained glass at Holy Trinity, Long Melford

Anna Eavis, English Heritage

Venue: Zoom

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

‘Sculpture in Roman Britain and its Continental Context’

Penny Coombe, Wolfson College, Oxford

The lecture will be followed by the President's Reception

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

Dr Karl Kinsella, Lincoln College, Oxford

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

Dr Anne Pedersen, National Museum of Denmark

‘Home and Garden in the Cities of Early Medieval Italy

Dr Caroline Goodson, University of Cambridge

‘Recent Work on the Monastic Buildings at Westminster Abbey’

Tim Tatton-Brown, Buildings Archaeologist

The lecture will be followed by the Twelfth-Night Party

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

Dr Nick Trend, University of East Anglia

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

Dr Sophie Kelly, Royal Collection Trust

‘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

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

Dr Jessica Barker, The Courtauld Institute of Art

Displaying the Bayeux Tapestry: Then and Now

Professor Christopher Norton, University of York

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

John McNeill

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

Dr Clare Vernon, Birkbeck College

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

Dr Zachary Stewart, Texas A&M University

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

Dr Rose Walker, Courtauld Institute of Art

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

Dr Jill A. Franklin, Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland

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

Eduardo Carrero Santamaria, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

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

Dr Tom Nickson, Courtauld Institute of Art

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

Dr Lesley Milner

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

Dr Zoë Opačić, Birkbeck College

The Romanesque Columns at Strzelno: New Perspectives

Dr Agata Gomólka, University of East Anglia

Woven Walls: Real and Fictive Textiles in Romanesque Church Interiors

Dr Emma Edwards, Victoria & Albert Museum

The English Parish Church Chancel as Architectural Genre

Dr James Alexander Cameron

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

Dr Alixe Bovey, Courtauld Institute of Art

Ways of Seeing Late Medieval English Art

by Dr Julian Luxford, University of St Andrews

‘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

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

Anya Heilpern, University of York

‘The Medieval Glazing of Westminster Abbey: New Discoveries’

Professor Richard Marks and Laura Atkinson, University of Cambridge and Canterbury Cathedral Stained Glass Studio

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

Jon Cannon, University of Bristol

‘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

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

Dr Jessica Berenbeim, Magdalen College, Oxford

‘Architecture and Landscape at Restormel Castle, Cornwall’

Dr Jeremy Ashbee, English Heritage

‘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.

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

by Dr Steven Brindle FSA, Historian, English Heritage

‘Recent studies of the fabric of Exeter Cathedral’

by John Allan FSA, Consultant Archaeologist, Exeter Cathedral

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

by Dr Michael Carter, FSA, Senior Properties Historian, English Heritage

‘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

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

by Professor Roberta Gilchrist FSA, Research Dean, University of Reading

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

Andrew Budge, PhD Candidate, Birkbeck College, University of London

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

Dr Jana Gajdosova, Lecturer, University of Cambridge

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

by Dr Jeffrey Miller Lecturer, University of Cambridge

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

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.

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

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

Dr Kate Giles FSA, Department of Archaeology, University of York

The Cloister in Anglo-Norman England

John McNeill FSA, Oxford Univeristy, Department of Continuing Education

The George Zarnecki Memorial lecture

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

Dr Alexandra Gajewski FSA, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Madrid

‘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

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)

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

Deirdre O’Sullivan, School of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Leicester

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

The Staffordshire Hoard Project: the current state of knowledge

Chris Fern FSA - Fern Archaeology

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

The Romanesque Portal as Performance

by Professor Manual Castineriras - Department of Art and Musicology, Autonomous, University of Barcelona

Preceded by BAA Council Meeting

‘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)

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

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

‘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

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

Dr Susan Walker

Commemoration and the development of the English Parish Church

Professor Nigel Saul

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

Professor Paul Crossley

20th-century England: writing an aerial history

Dr Richard Morris

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

Dr David Parsons

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

Dr Barney Sloane

The Scottish parish churches project

Professor Richard Fawcett

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

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

Professor Sandy Heslop

Medieval Building Stone

Tim Tatton-Brown

Monumental and multi-lingual inscriptions in the city of Ani

Dr Tony Eastmond

Richard II and the Royal treasure

Dr Jenny Stratford

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

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

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

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

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

Professor Robert Swanson

Canterbury Cathedral: Liturgy and Architecture

Dr. Helen Gittos

Torre Abbey: From Premonstratensian house to Post-Dissolution mansion

Chris Thomas

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

Professor Richard Marks

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

Professor David Park

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

Dr Steven Brindle

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

Dr David Robinson

Donald Strong Lecture ‘Design and Construction in Roman Architecture’

Dr. Janet DeLaine

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

Professor Caroline Bruzelius

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

Dr Nicola Coldstream

Sir Goddard Pemberton and the Fear of Oblivion

Dr Phillip Lindley

The Sculpture of the East End of Cluny III

Neil Stratford

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

Professor Chris Dyer

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

Professor Christopher Norton

Romanesque Linear Measures used in England and on the Continent

Harry Sunley

The Architecture of Cardinals’ Seals in the Thirteenth Century

Professor Julian Gardner

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

Dr Trevor Foulds and Paul Drury

Markenfield Hall: The Early House inside the Later

Prof. Andor Gomme

Whose Heritage? The Problem of the Shobdon Arches

Dr. Ron Baxter

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

Dr Chris Lovelock

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

Dr Alixe Bovey

BAA Spring Party

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

Twelfth-Night Party, 6 January 2025

Venue: Society of Antiquities of London, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London

2015 Twelfth-Night Party

Venue: Foyer and Council Room of the Society of Antiquaries

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

Coventry Study Day: Friday 21 March 2025

Venue: Locations: St Mary’s Guildhall, Holy Trinity Church, St Michael’s Cathedral

Lesnes Abbey

Margam Park: A Story of Continuity

David Robinson

Virtual Study Day: Google Earth for Architectural Historians

Dr James Alexander Cameron

Venue: Zoom

Norwich Study Day: Stone carving and archaeology

Study Day: Rievaulx Abbey

Venue: Rievaulx Abbey

Study Day: Windsor Castle

Steven Brindle and Tim Tatton Brown

Study Day: Abergavenny Priory

BAA Study Day: Abergavenny Priory

Opus Anglicanum – in London collections

Lincoln Cathedral: making and remaking

Study Day led by Professor Philip Dixon

Llancarfan and Llantwit Major

Jane Rutherfoord & David Robinson

Vale of Glamorgan, Wales

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

Southwell Minster

Prof. Phillip Dixon

Venue: Southwell Minster