Joint conference: Stirling and Dundee Universities
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6-8 August 2011
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Speakers and Papers
Saturday 6th
Richard Oram: Introduction to the Conference Themes – The Tower and the Household in Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Northern Europe
Pamela Marshall: Early Angevin donjons and their legacy in post-Conquest Britain
Przemyslaw Nocun: Fire to heat, fire to cook–stoves and ovens in medieval and early modern tower houses of Silesia and Little Poland (Southern Poland)
Erik Matthews: Tower and Court as Emblem of Social Mobility:- The Rise and Rise of Hornby Castle Under the Conyers
Richard Oram: Spiritual Lords/Temporal Powers: Bishops’ Towers in late Pre-Reformation Scotland – the Case of Davy’s Tower, Spynie Palace, Moray
Niall Brady: The household in later medieval Gaelic lands
Taco Hermans: Tower houses and households in The Netherlands
Gillian Eadie: “Know you that serving folk be of three kinds” Irish Towers and the Familia
Sunday 7 August
Charles McKean: The decline of the tower and arrival of the main house
Paul Naessens: Murchadh Ó Flaithbheartaigh and the Aggrandisement of Aughnanure Castle
Arnaud de Volder: ‘Towers’ on Irish Monastic Estates: The ‘other household’ -‘The Grange of Hannomult’, an example from a Later Medieval Cistercian Estate in the South East Ireland.
Rory Sherlock: 'A House Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand' - Tower House Subdivision in Late Medieval Ireland
Kate Buchanan: The Face of the Household: The Guests’ Experience of the Household in Late 16th Century Scottish Towerhouses
Penelope Dransart: Arma Christi in the Tower Households of North-eastern Scotland
Julie Danskin: 'Enlightened Perspectives? The Depiction of Medieval Towers in the Scottish Enlightenment