Programme

10.00 Doors open - Registration - 10.15 Coffee - 10.35 Peter Mack’s Welcome

10.40 David Crouch (Professor of Medieval History, University of Hull) A Facsimile of the Battlefield? What Was at Issue in the Mêlée Tournament, 1160-1260?

11.30 Tobias Capwell (Curator of Arms and Armour, the Wallace Collection) Violence and Elegance. Changing Priorities in the Joust, c.1200-1625

12.20 Noel Fallows (Professor of Spanish, University of Georgia) From Sport to Spectacle in Renaissance Iberia: Jousting, the Game of Canes, and Bull-Running

13.10 Lunch

14.10 Iain Fenlon (Professor of Music. Fellow, King's College, Cambridge) Martial Monteverdi

15.00 Helen Watanabe O’Kelly (Professor of German. Fellow, Exeter College, Oxford). Tournaments at Eighteenth Century Courts - When do they become historical re-enactments and why?

15.50 Tea

16.20 Sydney Anglo (Emeritus Professor: University of Wales) The History of the History of Tournaments

17.10 Reception and Close

 

Registration

£25 (£12.50 for concessions) including coffee/tea, and a sandwich lunch
To register please contact: warburg(at)sas.ac.uk