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The Normans in the South The Normans in the South: Mediterranean Meetings in the Central Middle Ages St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford, 30 June – 2 July 2017 Conquest & Culture Art & Architecture Power & Politics The Old Dining Hall The Medieval Chapel The Examination Schools / The Emden Rooms Fri. 9-10:15 Welcoming Remarks, Emily A. Winkler, University of Oxford Evelyn Jamison in Oxford: In commemoration of a pioneer historian of Norman Italy David Abulafia, University of Cambridge Keynote 1: The image of Norman Sicily: royal art, architecture and illusion Jeremy Johns, University of Oxford Room 6, Examination Schools 10:30-12:30 Cultural Crossroads or Empire? (4 papers) Shapers of the Sacred? Norman lordship and religious Conquest and Political Leadership (4 papers) Chair: David Abulafia, University of Cambridge architecture in Southern Italy (4 15-minute papers) Chair: Charles Stanton, Independent Scholar 1. The Normans in Sicily and Islam: A theological view Chair: Francesca Dell’Acqua, University of Birmingham 1. Examining Norman Conquests: a strategy for world on their politics and art 1. Building Churches as Building Identity? Molise in the domination? Martin Fuß, University of Wuerzburg Norman age as a cultural crossroad Matthew Bennett, Royal Military Academy 2. The Last Stand - The Clash of Civilizations on Francesco Gangemi, Bibliotheca Hertziana, Max- Sandhurst Medieval Monte Iato (Sicily) Planck-Institut (MPI) für Kunstgeschichte, Rome 2. Greek and Latin sources for the Norman expansion Nicole Mölk, University of Innsbruck 2. Much more than “Plan bénedéctin”: Reconsidering in the South: their value as “military histories” of the 3. Transitioning from Greek to Latin: The Eclipse of Sicilian cathedrals in the age of the County warfare in the Mediterranean Sea Italo-Greek Eremitism under the Normans of Margherita Tabanelli, Sapienza Università di Roma Georgios Theotokis, Fatih University, Istanbul Southern Italy, c. 1050-1150 3. Those other Monks: Greek cenobitism and royal 3. The Apulian campaign of Emperor Lothair III Kalina Yamboliev, University of California, Santa patronage in Calabria and Sicily under Roger II against King Roger of Sicily (1136/37) – serving Barbara Antonino Tranchina, Bibliotheca Hertziana, Max- the Pope or imperial interests? 4. Cultural crossroads OR empire: the implications of Planck-Institut (MPI) für Kunstgeschichte, Rome Robert Conrad, Otto von Guericke University the concepts used in order to analyze XIth-XIIth 4. A Mediterranean Dialogue: Sacred space and cultural Magdeburg century Sicily references in the Norman royal milieu 4. Norman Lineage and Hohenstaufen Crusade in Peter Annliese Nef, Université Paris 1-Panthéon Sorbonne Elisabetta Scirocco, Bibliotheca Hertziana, Max- of Eboli’s Liber ad honorem Augusti Planck-Institut (MPI) für Kunstgeschichte, Rome Dana Katz, University of Toronto 12:30-1:30 Lunch (Wolfson Dining Hall) 1:30-3 Norman Conquests compared: Importing models and Searching for Visual Models in Artistic Patronage: Negotiating Power effects of the Norman-Plantagenet culture in fortified Rome, Byzantium, Islam [Art and Patronage I] Chair: Jörg Schwarz, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität settlements and buildings of southern Italy 4 papers Chair: Dorothy F. Glass, SUNY Buffalo Munich (session ends 3:15) 1. Representing Genesis in the Norman mosaics of 1. Negotiated Representation: A Few Thoughts on Chair: Francesca Petrizzo, University of Leeds Sicily: the Role of Early Christian Rome Count Roger’s Ascent to Power in Sicily Fabio Scirea, Università degli Studi di Milano 1. Defining Towns in Norman period: external 2. Imitation or derivation? Byzantine iconographic Thomas Nitschke, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität contributions, local practises and technical paradigms on early Norman coins of Southern Italy Freiburg development in the urban walls. A comparative Andrea Torno Ginnasi, Università degli Studi di 2. Settling the Conflict: Rites of Reconciliation approach among Lazio, Campania and Toscana Milano Between Normans and Popes Enrico Romiti, University of L’Aquila 3. Tracking the Norman connections through the Michael Schwab, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität 2. Topographical and archaeological investigations into ‘Siculo-Arabic’ ivories: the Islamic world, Southern Munich architectural structures within the Norman Frontiers Italy and beyond 3. Bound by Loyalty: The Conflict Between Roger II in Italy and the UK: local emerging developments of Silvia Armando, American Academy in Rome and Honorius II Reconsidered a “supranational strategy” Markus Krumm, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Sabrina Pietrobono, University of L’Aquila Munich 3. Transfer of Norman Plantagenet ‘types’ of castles to the territory of L’Aquila (Abruzzo, Italy) Fabio Redi, University of L’Aquila 4. Castles and Norman ‘mottes’ in Samnium and Irpinia Alfonso Forgione, University of L’Aquila 3-3:45 Tea (Breakout Area) 3:45-5:15 The Expertise of the Normans Salerno: Patronage and Architecture [Art and Patronage The Norman Admirals Chair: Philippa Byrne, University of Oxford II] Chair: Matthew Bennett, Royal Military Academy 1. Norman Italy and the Byzantine ‘Encyclopedic’ Chair: Francesca Dell’Acqua, University of Birmingham Sandhurst Landscape: The Homilies of Philagathos of Cerami 1. Shaping the urban landscape: the Normans as new 1. George of Antioch: Architect of Norman Naval Mircea Dulus, Budapest patrons in Salerno Power 2. A Latin Sermo to Greek Clergy in Late Norman Maddalena Vaccaro, Università degli Studi di Charles D. Stanton, Independent Scholar Sicily: The Bilingual Latin-Greek Oratio of Salerno 2. Culture and politics among the Norman admirals Bartholomeus, Archbishop of Palermo 2. Salerno Cathedral and the historical context of some Francesco Carbonaro, Universität Bonn Anna Bellettini, IRHT, Paris of its furnishings 3. The emir George of Antioch in the Anonymous 3. Alfanus of Salerno’s “Experimenta”: Medical Eve Borsook, Harvard University Maltese Poem Expertise in the Context of Latin, Byzantine, and 3. A hitherto unknown Norman palace within the Cristina Rognoni, Università de Palermo Saracen Traditions Palazzo Pinto, Salerno F. Eliza Glaze, Coastal Carolina University Beat Brenk, Universities of Basel and Rome 5:30-6:30pm Drinks Reception (Front Quad) Sat. 9-10:30 Justice and Dispute Settlement Art and Patronage III Roger II of Sicily Chair: Jesse Izzo, Harvard University Chair: Clare Vernon, Independent Scholar Chair: Jeremy Johns, University of Oxford 2 1. What did Maio of Bari think about justice? 1. Patronage through epigraphs: Inscriptions about 1. The Making of a Mediterranean Monarch: Empire Philippa Byrne, University of Oxford religious foundations of the Norman period in and the Book of Roger 2. Remembering and Forgetting in the Register of Peter southern Italy Katherine Jacka, University of Sydney the Deacon Antonella Undiemi, Università degli Studi di Padova 2. The Church Building Programme of Roger II of Sarah Whitten, Hobart and William Smith Colleges 2. Seals and sealing practices of the Norman princes of Sicily – the Holy Face of a Tyrant 3. Philip of Al-Mahdīya – A Codicological Study on an Capua (1063-1132) Stefan E. A. Wagner, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Extraordinary Trial Guilhem Dorandeu, École du Louvre, Paris Germany and DiSum Catania, Italy Theresa Jaeckh, University of Heidelberg 3. Meanings and functions of Norman royal portraits 3. Roger II & Mediterranean Visual Culture in the religious and liturgical context Lisa Reilly, University of Virginia Mirko Vagnoni, University of Fribourg, Switzerland 10:30-11:15 Tea (Breakout Area) 11:15-12:45 Histories of Histories and the Classical Past [Chronicles Palermo Marriage and Dynastic Politics, East and West I] Chair: Barbara Crostini, Seton Hall University Chair: Laura Gathagan, SUNY Cortland Chair: Emily Albu, University of California, Davis 1. New Research on the Church of Santa Maria di 1. Marriage as a strategy for conquering power: 1. Alfanus of Salerno and Horace: The Normans and Campogrosso Norman matrimonial strategies in Southern Italy Other Peoples in the Great State Odes Marcin Böhm and Magdalena Przysiężną-Pizarską Aurélie Thomas, Université Paris 1 Panthéon Francis Newton, Duke University 2. The Norman Cathedral in Palermo: New data and Sorbonne / Paris VI Pierre et Marie Curie 2. Narratives of Cooperation and Conquest in the chronology for a further understanding of the 2. From Norman Sicily and Beyond: The Convent of Norman Mediterranean medieval phases Santa María de Sigena and the Articulation of Emily A. Winkler, University of Oxford Ruggero Longo, Tuscia University Dynastic Heritage 3. Remembering the past: the Normans in Italy from 3. The King’s Hospital in Norman Palermo: the San Verónica Carla Abenza Soria, Universitat Autònoma 11th to 12th century in the mirror of Saba of Giovanni dei Lebbrosi Archaeological Complex in de Barcelona Malaspina and Bartholomew of Neocastro Transition (11th-12th c.) 3. The Wives of Roger II of Sicily: Reflections on the Jörg Schwarz, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Giuseppe Mandalà and María Ángeles Utrero, CSIC, Marriage Strategies of an Evolving Monarchy Munich Madrid Dawn Marie Hayes, Montclair State University 12:45-1:45 Lunch (Wolfson Dining Hall) 1:45-3:15 Chronicles II 4 papers (session ends 3:30) Perspectives on Population: Urban and Rural Crusading: Motivations and Incentives Chair: Graham Loud, University of Leeds Chair: Sandro Carocci, University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata’ Chair: Joanna Drell, University of Richmond 1. The Historia Sicula: The Kingdom’s Conquest 1. The Normans in Sicily: an
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