22nd February 2018
10.00 - 10.20 – Arrival and Registration
10.20 - 10.30 – Welcome
10.30 - 11.15
Hermann Kamp (Paderborn University) – The Submission of Rebellious Cities in the Roman-German Empire
11.15 - 12.00
Iain MacInnes (University of the Highlands and Islands) – ‘Be at peace with God and me’: Violence, War and Royal Responses to Insurrection in Medieval Scotland, c.1100-1286
12.00 - 13.30 – Lunch
13.30 - 14.15
Lars Kjær (New College of the Humanities) – Gift giving: ‘Surrogate Warfare’ or ‘Social Glue’?
14.15 - 15.00
Yvonne Friedman (Bar-Ilan University) – Food and Clothing in Rituals of Peacemaking in Medieval Europe and the Latin East
15.00 - 15.30 – Refreshment break
15.30 - 16.15
Betty Binysh (Cardiff University) – How Did the Crusaders’ Peace-making Strategies in Europe Compare with their Negotiations with Muslims in the Levant?
16.15 - 17.00
Harald Endre Tafjord (Volda University College) – Conflicts and the Use of Exile as a Restraint of Violence in Twelfth-Century Castile – The Conflicts Between King Alfonso VI and Rodrigo Díaz del Vivar
17.00 - 18.00 – Wine Reception
23rd February 2018
10.00 - 10.30 – Reception
10.30 - 11.15
Stephen D. White (Emory University) – Peace or Punishment in Medieval England: From 1215 to 1322
11.15 - 12.00
Sean McGlynn (Plymouth University at Strode College) – Chivalry and the Laws of Siege Warfare: Restrictions on Violence Against Besieged Non-combatants in Twelfth and Thirteenth-Century Europe
12.00 - 13.30 – Lunch
13.30 - 14.15
Tobias Boestad (Paris-Sorbonne University) – ‘The Old Peace on which the Cross was kissed’. The Negotiation and Enforcement of the Thirteenth-Century German-Gotlandic-Russian Trade and Peace Agreements
14.15 - 15.00
Philippa Mesiano (University of Kent) – Pope Alexander IV, King Henry III and the Treaty of Paris (1259): Papal Mediation in Thirteenth Century Europe
15.00 - 15.30 – Refreshment break
15.30 - 16.15
David Brégaint (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) – God's Peace and the King's Peace in Medieval Norway
16.15 - 17.00
Auður Magnúsdóttir (University of Gothenburg) – Women, Violence and Peacemaking in Thirteenth-Century Iceland
17.00 - 17.15 – Conclusion