The Copthorne Hotel Newcastle
The Close Newcastle |
2-3 August 2014 |
Speakers and Papers
Saturday 2 August
Pamela Marshall: Fans of Antiquity: Chinese Whispers and the Romanesque donjon.
Audrey M. Thorstad: A Norman Great Tower in Late Fifteenth-Century England: A Symbol of Ancient Lineage and Regional Power for the De Vere Family.
Taco Hermans: Towering Ambitions in the Netherlands.
Richard Oram: Douglas and Percy: Making your mark on the March.
Sunday 3 August
Przemyslaw Nocun: Show or Hide – Mediaeval Towers in the Renaissance and Baroque Houses and Palaces in Poland.
Tom Addyman: The House of Kinneil and the Hamiltons.
Izzy Hampton: Old Symbols on New Towers: John Neville and Raby Castle
Penelope Dransart: The hearth in the tower: lineage, status and ‘lineal masculinity’ at Balquhain Castle, Aberdeenshire.
Erik Matthews: “Towers Built with the Hands of Ancient Times”:- Elite Architecture and Lineage in the Late Medieval Vale of York.