Thursday 23 March 2023
Start: 09.30 am

09.30−09.40
Welcome: Christina von Hodenberg (Director, GHIL)

09.40−10.00
Introduction: Jörg Peltzer (Heidelberg/Norwich)

1.) Contemporary Perceptions; Chair: John Sabapathy

10.00−10.45
Frédérique Lachaud (Paris), Trans-regnal Kingship in Thirteenth-Century Political Thought

10.45−11.05
Tea Break

11.05−11.35
Len Scales (Durham), Emperor of Many Peoples: Trans-regnal Monarchy in Thirteenth-Century Chronicles from the Western Empire

11.35−12.05
Björn Weiler (Aberystwyth), Meanings of Empire in Thirteenth-Century England

12.05−12.35
Discussion

2.) The Empire and the Angevin Empire I: Structures; Chair: John Gillingham

14.00−14.30
Jürgen Dendorfer (Freiburg i.Br), The Empire

14.30−15.00
Daniel Power (Swansea), The Angevin Empire in the Thirteenth Century: Survival, Reorganisation and Reorientation

15.00−15.30
Discussion

15.30−16.00
Tea Break

3.) The Empire and the Angevin Empire II: Exercising Justice in the Absence of the King; Chair: Adrian Jobson

16.00−16.30
Martin Kaufhold (Augsburg), King in absentia – Royal Justice in the German Lands

16.30−17.00
Frédéric Boutoulle (Bordeaux), Royal Enquiries in Gascony during the Reign of Henry III

17.00−17.30
Discussion

Friday 24 March 2023
Start: 09.30 am

4.) Crowns up for Grabs? I; Chair: David Carpenter

09.30−10.00
Barbara Bombi (Kent), A Special Case? The Papacy

10.00−10.30
Gregory Lippiatt (Exeter), Holy Opportunity: The Creation of Crusading Principalities in the Thirteenth-Century Mediterranean?

10.30−11.00
Discussion

11.00−11.30
Tea Break

5.) Crowns up for Grabs? II; Chair: David d’Avray

11.30−12.00
Lioba Geis (Köln): Profitemur imperium nichil prorsus iuris habere in regno Sicilie. The Relations between the Empire and Sicily during the Reign of Frederick II

12.00−12.30
David Abulafia (Cambridge), Sicily under the Angevins and Aragonese

12.30−13.00
Discussion

13.30 (Departure)−17.00: Visit to Westminster Abbey led by David Carpenter, London, (by invitation only)

Public Evening Lecture, UCL Darwin Lecture Theatre (from 7pm)

19.15–21.00
William Chester Jordan (Princeton), A Different Path? The Single Crown of Louis IX

Saturday 25 March 2023
Start: 09.30 am

6.) Material Representations; Chair: Marcus Meer

09.30−10.15
Thierry Pécout (St-Etienne), Anjou and Provence

10.15−10.35
Tea Break

10.35−11.05
Paola Vitolo (Napoli), The Many Sicilies? The Architecture of its Rulers in the Thirteenth Century

11.05−11.35
Lindy Grant (Reading), Imposition and Appropriation? Architecture, the Associated Arts, and the Presentation of Rulership in the Shell of the Angevin Empire in the Thirteenth Century

11.35−12.05
Discussion

7.) Round Table Discussion; Chair: Paul Binski

12.00−12.10
Nicholas Vincent (Norwich), Trans-regnal Kingship in the Thirteenth Century

12.10−12.40
Open Discussion

Departure