Conference Friday 29 May 2026 – Weston Library
With an exhibition curated by the participants
9 Welcome Matthew Holford & Laure Miolo
9.15 Lauren Pidgeon & Deborah Seymour : An agreement between Agatha the widow and John Halegod
9.30 Emily Breithaupt & India Kelly: The Charter of Alice of Stokes
9.45 Alice Zhang & Annabel Brodersen: A Study of Christ Church F. 48: Property Ownership in Thirteenth-Century St Aldates, Oxford
10 Natasha Jenman (History, St Edmund Hall): Jews in the Queen’s Gold Accounts of Eleanor of Castile
10.30 Marina Giraudeau & Philine Armbuster: Renting and Salvation: The Tenancy Agreement of Christ Church F. 17
10.45 Break
11.15 Teresa Witcombe (History, Wadham College): Captives and slaves in medieval Castilian archives
11.45 Tabitha Claydon: At the “insistence” of an “intervening” king
12 Julian Munby (Conted, Oxford): Mapping medieval Oxford from the archives
12.45 Lunch
2 Richard Allen (Magdalen College): Towards a new edition of the cartulary and charters of the Hospital of St John the Baptist, Oxford
2.30 Kevin Hoff & Cara Nicholls: Christina Pady and the Priory of St Frideswide
2.45 Hannele Hellerstedt, Holly Smith & Vanessa Emmet: Land and Legacy: The Life of Hugo de Plugenet
3 Louise Keitsch: Giving up (on) everything?
3.15 Yijia Wang& Luka Luhai: Cumin, Lamp, and Obligation: Making Continuity in a Medieval Oxford Parish.
3.30 Dan Wakelin (English Faculty, St Hilda’s College): Late medieval letters: disorderly archives
4.15 Daniel Dias & Charlotte Visconsi: Copying Amidst Conflict: Reproducing Castilian Law in the Wake of Civil War, (1437-1445).
4.30 End
This event is supported by the Centre for the Study of the Book.