Event Durham

This three-day residential conference, hosted at St John’s College at the University of Durham, explores where status ended and office began in pre-Conquest England, and examines how status and office changed under the Normans.

• What can those who gained status and office in the ecclesiastical sphere tell us about those who obtained the same thing in the secular world?

• Among the laity, what can a discussion of the lowest thegns contribute to our understanding of the men who held the office of reeve or earl?

• What about the status of women?

• What insights can be revealed on social and political regional variation in England in the ninth through twelfth centuries?

Keynote lectures will be given by Professor Francesca Tinti (University of the Basque Country), Professor Elisabeth van Houts (Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge), and Dr Emily Ward (University of Edinburgh).

 

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Please email the conference organiser here.