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Thursday, 20 April 2017

Upcoming Event: Professor Andrew Breeze Lecture


The Northern Arthur and the Volcanic Winter of 536-37
Professor Andrew Breeze (University of Navarra)

Joint meeting of Manchester Medieval Society and the Manchester Centre for Anglo Saxon Studies (MANCASS). Non-members welcome.

Date: Thursday 27 April 2017
Time: 6 p.m.
Venue: John Rylands Library, Deansgate, Manchester
Attendance: Free

There will be a dinner with the speaker following this talk. If you would like to attend, please email our treasurer Dr Hannah Priest to book a place.

Wednesday, 6 April 2016

Upcoming Events: Duncan Sayer Lecture on 14 April


Adventus Saxonum: Migration, DNA and Identity in the Early Middle Ages
2016 Joint Meeting of the Manchester Medieval Society and the Manchester Centre for Anglo Saxon Studies

Speaker: Dr Duncan Sayer (Reader in Archaeology, University of Central Lancashire)
Date: Thursday 14 April
Time: 6pm
Venue: John Rylands Library, Deansgate, Manchester

Attendance: Free

For more information, please contact the Manchester Medieval Society

Wednesday, 24 February 2016

Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies: Toller Lecture 2016

Women Write the Past – Old English, New Literature and the Romance of Scholarship
Professor Clare Lees (King’s College London)


Mary Bateson (1865-1905)


Monday, 7th March, 6pm
Historic Reading Room, John Rylands Library, Deansgate

Followed by a free wine reception.
Further details, please contact Dr Charles Insley, Department of History, or Dr James Paz, Department of English.

Tuesday, 6 October 2015

Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies (MANCASS) Programme 2015-16

Monday 19 October 2015
Professor Don Scragg (MANCASS): 'Making Invisible Old English Visible'
5pm, Samuel Alexander Building, Room A4

Monday 9 November 2015
Dr Ryan Lavelle (University of Winchester): 'Viking - Alfredian - Late Anglo-Saxon? Reflections on the Periodisation of "Pre-Conquest" English History'
5pm, Samuel Alexander Building, Room A4

Monday 8 Feb 2016
Dr Alaric Hall (University of Leeds): 'Comparing Anglo-Saxon and Arabic Riddles'
5pm, Samuel Alexander Building, Room A4

2016 Toller Lecture
Monday 7 March 2016
6pm, Historic Reading Room, John Rylands Library, Deansgate, Manchester

Professor Clare Lees (King's College London) will speak on 'Women Write the Past: Old English, New Literature and the Romance of Scholarship'

Tuesday, 21 April 2015

Brigitte Resl Lecture

Joint meeting of the Manchester Medieval Society and Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies
Thursday 23rd April 2015, 6pm

Noah’s Ark in the Earlier Middle Ages
Professor Brigitte Resl
Dean of Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
University of Hull



Venue: John Rylands Library, Deansgate

Non-Members are always welcome.

Saturday, 26 July 2014

CFP: Manhood in Anglo-Saxon England

Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies (MANCASS)
Easter Conference 2015

Hulme Hall, University of Manchester, UK
7-9 April 2015

Proposals for 20 minute papers on this topic are invited. Topics that the conference will include, but are not limited to:

• Male identities and constructions of masculinity
• Literary presentations and representations of manhood
• Laws and Penitentials
• Male sexualities
• Manhood and Archaeology
• Representations of masculinity in art

We are looking for submissions (approx. 300 words) on these and related subjects to reach us by 30th November 2014. Please send submissions, and direct enquiries to the conference director, Dr Charles Insley, Department of History, University of Manchester.

Sunday, 9 February 2014

John Rylands Medieval Research Seminar

(including information on Manchester Medieval Society lectures)

Semester 2, 2013-2014

February 6th 2014 – John Rylands Medieval Research Seminar (5.30pm) Professor Gale Owen-Crocker, English, University of Manchester, ‘The significance of the Bayeux Tapestry’ (Venue: John Rylands Library Deansgate, Christie Seminar Room)

February 20th 2014 - Manchester Medieval Society Lecture (6.00pm) Professor Maria Hayward, Southampton University, ‘Merchants and Makers: An analysis of the suppliers named in Great Wardrobe accounts of Henry VII and Henry VIII’ (Venue: Samuel Alexander A112, University of Manchester)

March 6th 2014 – John Rylands Medieval Research Seminar (5.30pm) Dr Charles Insley, History, University of Manchester, ‘Ottonians with Pipe Rolls? Kingship and symbolic action in the kingdom of the English’ (Venue: John Rylands Library Deansgate, Christie Seminar Room)

March 20th 2014 – John Rylands Medieval Research Seminar (5.30pm) Dr Georg Christ, History, University of Manchester, ‘Age of Empire: Information and knowledge management in the Venetian and Mamluk empires during the fifteenth century’ (Venue: Samuel Alexander A112, University of Manchester)

April 3rd 2014 - Manchester Medieval Society/MANCASS Lecture (6.00pm) Kevin Leahy, University of Leicester, ‘New Finds of the Staffordshire Hoard’ (Venue: TBC)

May 1st 2014 - John Rylands Medieval Research Seminar/Brook Lecture (5.30pm) Professor Andrew James Johnston, Freie Universitaet Berlin, ‘Chaucer's Postcolonial Renaissance’ (Venue: John Rylands Library Deansgate, Christie Seminar Room)

Supported by the John Rylands Research Institute

Monday, 23 September 2013

MANCASS News and Programme 2013-14

New publications from the Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies:

- Nicholas J. Higham and Martin Ryan, The Anglo-Saxon World, London, Yale University Press, 2013.
- Nicholas J. Higham ed., Wilfrid: Abbot, Bishop, Saint, Donington, Shaun Tyas, 2013.
- Gale R. Owen-Crocker and Brian W. Schneider, ed., Royal Authority in Anglo-Saxon England, Oxford, Archaeopress, BAR British Series 584, 2013.
- Gale R. Owen-Crocker and Brian W. Schneider, ed., Kingship, Legislation and Power in Anglo-Saxon England, Publications of the Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies Volume 13, Woodbridge, Boydell, 2013.

Talks and conferences 2013-14
After ordinary meetings members are welcome to join the Director and the speaker for dinner at their own expense.

Monday 30 September 2013
5pm, Samuel Alexander Building Room S. 1.7
Dr Rory Naismith, of the University of Cambridge, will speak on ‘The Forum Hoard of Anglo-Saxon Coins’

Monday 11 November 2013
5pm, room to be announced
Dr Susan Youngs, formerly of the British Museum, will speak on ‘The Prince and the Hanging-bowl: the British presence at Prittlewell’

Monday 10 Feb 2014
5pm, room to be announced
Dr David Woodman, of the University of Cambridge, will speak on ‘The writing of history in twelfth-century Worcester’

Monday 3 March 2014: The Toller Lecture
Professor John Hines, University of Cardiff, will speak on ‘A new chronology and new agenda: the problematic sixth century’ exploring the issues raised by the recent high-precision radio-carbon dating project; 6pm, in the Historic Reading Room, John Rylands Library Deansgate, followed by a free wine reception, followed by dinner at Pesto, Deansgate (about £25 per person). If you wish to attend the post-lecture dinner please book by Monday 24 Feb 2013 with Gale Owen-Crocker.

Thursday 3 April 2014: Joint meeting of MANCASS and the Manchester Medieval Society
Dr Kevin Leahy, of the Portable Antiquities Scheme, will speak on ‘The Staffordshire Hoard’; 6pm in the Historic Reading Room, John Rylands Library Deansgate. If you wish to attend the post-lecture dinner please book by Thursday 27 March 2014 with Susan Thompson.

15-17 April 2014
The MANCASS Easter Conference on ‘Womanhood in Anglo-Saxon England’ will take place at Hulme Hall, The University of Manchester. The Conference will be directed by Professor Gale R. Owen-Crocker, The University of Manchester, in association with Dr Charles Insley, The University of Manchester, and Dr Christine Rauer, University of St Andrews. Offers of 20 minute papers should be submitted, with a short abstract, to Gale Owen-Crocker by 30 November 2013. Registration enquiries should be directed to Brian Schneider.

Wednesday, 31 October 2012

Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies (MANCASS) Programme 2012-13

Monday 8 October 2012, 5pm: Faye Simpson (Manchester Metropolitan University): ‘An Anglo-Saxon woman – and a cow’

Monday 12 November 2012, 5pm: Peter Darby (University of Leicester): ‘Bede’s history of the future’

Monday 11 February 2013, 5pm: Helen Gittos (University of Kent): ‘The Languages of the Liturgy in Medieval England’

All in the Samuel Alexander Building, rooms to be announced

Monday 4 March 2013, 6pm: The Toller Lecture: Leslie Webster (formerly of the British Museum)
The Historic Reading Room, John Rylands Library, Deansgate, Manchester
Followed by a FREE wine reception in the foyer of the building. Anyone wishing to attend the dinner following the reception (at Pesto, Deansgate) should contact Gale Owen-Crocker by 18 February 2013. The cost will be around £25 per person.

Thursday 21 March 2013, 6pm: Joint Meeting with Manchester Medieval Society: Hannah Cobb (University of Manchester): ‘The Viking Ship from Arnamurchan, Scotland’
The Historic Reading Room, John Rylands Library, Deansgate, Manchester
Anyone wishing to attend the dinner following the lecture (at Pesto, Deansgate) should contact Susan Thompson by 7 March 2013.

Easter Conference: ‘The Vikings in the North-West’: details to be announced.

There will not be a MANCASS postgraduate conference in 2013, but we hope to resume in 2014.