Exploring Medieval Oxford through Surviving Archives

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.