[Here is the provisional program for the Lincoln Record Society's Magna Carta Conference, to be held April 7-9, 2015, at the University of Lincoln.]Tuesday, 7 April (afternoon)
Early career researchers sessions
- Sophie Ambler (University of East Anglia), ‘Who Witnessed Magna Carta?’
- Will Eves (University of St. Andrews), ‘Royal Justice in the Years Preceding Magna Carta: Actions of Mort D'Ancestor before King John, 1199-1216’
- Katherine Har (University of Oxford), ‘Navigating the royal administration of justice in late twelfth- and early thirteenth-century England’
- Joshua Hey (University of St. Andrews), ‘A Comparison of the Oaths in Magna Carta’
- Felicity Hill (University of East Anglia), ‘Magna Carta and Pastoral Care’
- James Richardson (University of York), ‘Ecclesiastical liberty and church reform: bishops and their dioceses in the reign of Edward I’
A keynote address by David Carpenter and the following speakers:
- Dauvit Broun (University of Glasgow), ‘Scotland’s Magna Carta?’
- David Crook (University of Nottingham / Lincoln Record Society), ‘Magna Carta and the Charter of the Forest, 1215-17’
- Philippa Hoskin (University of Lincoln), ‘Magna Carta, episcopal rights and the 1250s ‘
- Helen Lacey (University of Oxford), ‘Invocations of Magna Carta in the Later Middle Ages’
- Frédérique Lachaud (Universite de Lorrainé, Metz), ‘Limiting the king’s powers by law and counsel: Magna Carta in the context of political theory (c. 1150-c. 1215)’
- Jessica Nelson (The National Archives), ‘Anglo-Scots relations in the Age of Magna Carta’
- Louise Wilkinson (Christ Church University, Canterbury), ‘Lincolnshire Women in the Age of Magna Carta’
Thursday, 8 April (morning)
Events TBC but will include a visit to Lincoln Cathedral Library, a visit to Lincoln Castle to view Lincoln’s copy of Magna Carta, and a walking tour of uphill Lincoln.
