Cambridge International Chronicles Symposium 16th - 18th July 2010

In association with Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, The Faculty of History, The Faculty of English, and the University of Cambridge

Chronicles are a fertile area of academic research focusing on a genre of historical literature written mainly in a time before departments of English and History had yet come into existence. The Cambridge International Chronicle Symposium (CICS) is a biennial interdisciplinary conference organized to promote research and to strengthen the network of chronicle studies worldwide. The aim of the CICS is to allow scholars from various departments of learning and critical approaches to meet, present new research, demonstrate new critical approaches and discuss prospects for ongoing, collective research between scholars and academic institutions.
The inaugural symposium took place on 11 - 13 July 2008 at the English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Cambridge, and attracted over 60 delegates. Selected papers will be published in The Medieval Chronicle,vols VI and VII, by Rodopi in 2009 and 2010.
Forth-coming conference details and Call For Papers
The theme for CICS 2010 is Authority and Gender in Medieval and Renaissance Chronicles, which will be debated over the three days during open sessions of three twenty-five minute papers, alternating with longer keynote addresses. Selected papers will be published in a volume bearing the same title within two years of the conference. The 2008 inaugural proceedings appeared in the Medieval Chronicle, vols. VI (2009) and VII (2010, forthcoming).

• Call for papers (pdf)
  [deadline: 15 December 2009]

The organisers welcome paper or article proposals on the following subjects:
            - Kingship and Queenship, Earls and Ealdormen;
            - Abbots and abbesses, monks and nuns;
            - Ecclesiastical and secular authorities;
            - Institutional authority;
            - National authority and identity;
            - Masculine, feminine, and neuter: linguistic authority;
            - Auctors and Auctoritas;
            - Textual authority, witnesses, traditions, and scribes;
            - Kinglists and genealogies;
            - Nuns in the scriptorium;
            - Female voices, male scribes – authority and authorship;
            - Gender and legal practices;
            - Moral authority;
            - Ritual and authority;
            - Establishment of authority: feuds, force, and warfare;
            - The construction of gender in chronicles.

More information will be available on this website soon; meanwhile, if you have any queries, do not hesitate to contact the organisers at CambridgeICS@gmail.com

Conference Programme (July 2008)

Friday 11 July 2008

3:00pm – 4:00pm	Welcome registration Foyer, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Cambridge (map)
4:00pm – 5:00pm	Private viewing of chronicle manuscripts exhibition Dr Christopher de Hamel, Corpus Christi College
5:15pm – 6:00pm	CICS 2008 Inaugural Lecture Large Seminar Room, Ground Floor, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Cambridge: Professor Alan Deyermond, Written by the Victors: Technique and Ideology in Official Historiography in Verse in Late-Medieval Spain (Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London). Chair: Dr Juliana Dresvina (University of Cambridge)
6:30pm – 7:30pm	Dinner in town

Saturday July 12 2008

8:30am – 9:00am	Welcome Reception (continued) Coffee and Tea for speakers and guests, Foyer, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Cambridge
9:00am – 10:45am	Early Chronicles and Their Traditions Large Seminar Room (GR06/07), Ground Floor, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Cambridge: Chair: Dr Elizabeth Van Houts (University of Cambridge) Dr Maria Kouroumali, Creating the History of the World: Chronicles and Chroniclers in Sixth Century Byzantium (University of Oxford) Prof. Emerita Julia Bolton Holloway, Romancing the Chronicle (Biblioteca e Bottega Fioretta Mazzei, Florence; olim University of Colorado) Dr Richard Corridini, Chronicle-annals in the context of the scriptorium of Fulda in the Carolingian period (University of Vienna)
10:45am – 11:00am	Morning Tea Foyer, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Cambridge
11:00am – 12:00pm	Keynote address Large Seminar Room, Ground Floor, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Cambridge: Professor Bernard Muir, The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: A Paleographer's View (University of Melbourne). Chair: Nicholas Sparks (University of Cambridge)
12:15am – 1:15pm	Buffet Lunch Newnham College, Sidgewick Hall (map)
1:15pm – 3:15pm	The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Large Seminar Room, Ground Floor, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Cambridge: Chair: Dr Peter Stokes (University of Cambridge) Dr Tatiana V. Bochkareva, Orthography of the Peterborough Chronicle (Moscow State University) Nicholas Sparks, The Parker Chronicle: chronology gone awry (University of Cambridge) Veronica Wieser, Calculations towards an End: the Chronicle of Sulpicius Severus (University of Vienna) Dr Scott T. Smith, Culmination and Dissolution: the Edgar Poems in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (Pennsylvania State University)
3:15pm – 3:45pm	Afternoon Tea Foyer, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Cambridge
3:45pm – 5:45pm	Local Chronicles and Universal Chronicles Large Seminar Room, Ground Floor, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Cambridge: Chair: Abigail Queen (University of Cambridge) Tara Andrews, Post-Apocalyptic Armenian History and the Chronicle of Matthew of Edessa (University of Oxford) Alison Alexander, Sticks, stones and ancient bones: ecclesiastical politics and the development of annalistic writing in eleventh-century Rouen (University of Cambridge) Dr Alan Cooper Walter Map on Henry I: the Creation of a Useful Myth (Colgate University, NY) Kathryn Dutton, Fulk IV and the Fragmentum historiae Andegavensis: the production, dissemination and intentions of an eleventh-century lay chronicle (The University of Glasgow)
5:45pm – 6:30pm	Wine Reception Foyer, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Cambridge
7:30	Formal Dinner St Catharine’s College, The Senior Common Room

Sunday July 13 2008

8:30am – 9:00am	Coffee and Tea for the delegates Foyer, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Cambridge
9:00am – 10:55am	Historiography, Narrative, and Comparative Traditions-I Large Seminar Room, Ground Floor, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Cambridge: Chair: Dr Natasha Romanova (University of Liverpool) Sally Lamb, Evidence from absence – omission and inclusion in early medieval annals (University of Cambridge) Dr Erik Kooper, ‘Other days, other ways’, or why differences matter (University of Utrecht) Kathryn Green, Narrative Strategies in the Westminster Chronicle(University of Manchester) Dr Bernadette Williams Annalists Compared: The Dublin Dominican and The Kilkenny Franciscan (Independent Scholar)
10:55am – 11:10am	Morning tea Foyer, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Cambridge
11:10am – 12:30pm	Historiography, Narrative, and Comparative Traditions-II Large Seminar Room, Ground Floor, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Cambridge: Chair: Abby Robinson (Univeristy of Melbourne) Professor Andrew Jotischky, Mendicant Strategies for Incomplete Histories: the Carmelites and the Holy Land (University of Lancaster) Matthew Phillpott, The compliation of a Sixteenth-century Ecclesiastical History: the use of Matthew Paris in John Foxe's Acts and Monuments (University of Sheffield). Dr Anna Seregina, Religious controversies and history writing in the 16th century England (Russian Academy of Sciences).
12:30pm – 1:30pm	Buffet Lunch Newnham College, Sidgewick Hall
1:30pm – 3:30pm	Holinshed Panel Large Seminar Room, Ground Floor, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Cambridge: Chair: Professor Helen Cooper (University of Cambridge) Dr Olga Dmitrieva, English ‘Pantheon of Fame’: intellectuals in Holinshed’s Chronicles, (Moscow State University) Dr Ian Archer, A parallel-text electronic edition of the 1577 and 1587 editions of Holinshed’s Chronicle (University of Oxford) Dr Felicity Heal, Confessional identities of the contributors to the 1587 edition of Holinshed’s Chronicle (University of Oxford) Dr Paulina Kewes, Narrative Historiography and the Rules of Succession (University of Oxford)
3:30pm – 4:00pm	Afternoon tea; departures

Source: http://www.asnc.cam.ac.uk/diary/cics/index.html