York 1190: Jews and Others in the Wake of Massacre - Programme
| Monday 22 March:in the Huntingdon Room, the King's Manor |
| 10.00 am |
Registration & coffee |
| 11.00 |
Session 1: Welcome
- Presentation to Professor R. Barrie Dobson: 'The Jewish Communities of Medieval England'
- Paul Hyams, Cornell University, ‘Faith, Fealty, Lordship, and Jewish Infideles in Twelfth-Century England’
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| 12.30 |
Lunch
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| 2.00 pm |
Session 2: Political Violence and 1190
- Hugh Doherty, University of Oxford, ‘The Sheriffs of Yorkshire and the Massacre of 1190’
- Alan Cooper, Colgate University ‘The Aftermath of 1190: Longbeard’s Uprising in London in 1196’
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| 3.30 |
Tea & coffee |
| 4.00-5.30 |
Session 3: Anti-Semitic Narrative in Anglo-Norman England
- Emily Rose, Johns Hopkins University, ‘The Origins of the Blood Libel: William of Norwich and the Copycat Cults’
- Carlee Bradbury, Radford University, ‘Monstrous Contact: the Jew at the Funeral of the Virgin Mary.”
- Heather Blurton, University of California Santa Barbara, ‘Twelfth-Century Narratives of Ritual Crucifixion Accusations’
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| 6.00-6.45 |
- Lecture: Nicholas Vincent, University of East Anglia, ‘Richard I: The New Titus’
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| 7.30 |
Conference dinner |
| Tuesday 23 March: in the Huntingdon Room, the King's Manor |
| 9.00 am |
Session 4: Royal Government and the Jews of England
- Robert Stacey, University of Washington, ‘The Massacres of 1189-90 and the Origins of the Jewish Exchequer, 1186-1226’
- Robin Mundill, Glenalmond College, Perth, ‘The Legacy of the Archa System after 1216’
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| 10.30 |
Tea & coffee |
| 11.00 |
Session 5: Christian Perspectives on Conversion and Faith
- Ruth Nisse, Wesleyan University, ‘Josephus, Jerusalem, and the Martyrs of Medieval England’
- Matthew Mesley, University of Exeter, ‘Cures and Conversions: The ‘Jewish Pilgrim Topos’ in Thirteenth-Century Miracle Accounts’
- Helen Birkett, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, ‘Monks, Laybrothers, Jews? British Cistercians and the “Synagogue of Satan” c.1200’
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| 12.30 |
Lunch |
| 2.00 pm |
Session 6: Cross Channel Contexts
- Ethan Zadoff (CUNY Graduate Center) and Pinchas Roth (Hebrew University, Jerusalem), ‘England and the Talmudic Community of Medieval Europe’
- Thomas Roche, Archives départementales de la Nièvre, ‘Making Agreements with (or without) Jews in Anglo-Norman Society around 1190’
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| 3.30 |
Tea & coffee |
| 4.00 |
- Lecture: Anna Abulafia, University of Cambridge, ‘Notions of Jewish Service in Twelfth and Thirteenth-Century England
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| 5.00 |
Reception |
| Wednesday 24 March: in the Hospitium, Museum Gardens |
| 9.00 |
Session 7: York
- Sarah Rees Jones, University of York, ‘York in the Twelfth Century’
- Jonathan Clarke, Field Archaeology Specialists, ‘The Archaeology of Clifford’s Tower’
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| 10.30 |
Tea & coffee |
| 11.00 |
Session 8: Memory and Text
- Kathy Lavezzo, University of Iowa, ‘The Geography of Antisemitism in Thomas of Monmouth's Life and Miracles of St. William of Norwich’
- Anthony Bale, Birkbeck College, ‘Text, Memory, Event: The Aesthetics of Persecution’
- Hannah Johnson, University of Pittsburgh, ‘Massacre and Memory: The New Intellectual Politics of Remembering Jewish Martyrdom’
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- Visit to Cliffords’ Tower – led by Jonathan Clarke, Field Archaeology Specialists
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| 12.30 |
Lunch |
| 1.30 |
- Jeffrey Cohen, George Washington University, ‘The Future of the Jews of York’
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| 2.30 |
Tea
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3.00-
5.00 |
- The Croxton Play of the Sacrament & Stephen Berkhoff’s Ritual in Blood (directed by Elisabeth Dutton, Worcester College, Oxford). This will take place in the Hospitium.
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