MANCHESTER CENTRE FOR ANGLO-SAXON STUDIES
MANCHESTER CENTRE FOR ANGLO-SAXON STUDIES
Easter conference 2015
Manhood in Anglo-Saxon England
Hulme Hall, University of Manchester
Programme, 7th-8th April 2015
Tuesday 7 April
1000-1100 Registration, tea and coffee
1100-1230 Session 1: Introducing Men
Charles Insley (Manchester): ‘Manhood and Masculinities in Anglo-Saxon England’
Katherine Barker (Bournemouth): ‘Aldhelm of Malmesbury: the sins of Sodom and not
Gomorrah, a reading between the lines’
1230-1400: Lunch/bookstall: Shaun Tyas and Boydell and Brewer
1400-1530: Session 2: Contesting Manhood in the Eleventh Century
Mary Dockray Miller (Lesley College): ‘Tostig Godwinson: never quite an alpha male’
Ryan Lavelle and Courtnay Konshuh (Winchester): ‘Fathers, Sons, Lords and Men: the Battle
of Gerberoy (1079) and the Last Anglo-Saxon Hero’
1530-1600 Tea/coffee/bookstall
1600-1730: Session 3: Problematizing Men and Manhood
Debby Banham (Cambridge): ‘Sex and gender in Anglo-Saxon medicine: the male patient,
assumed and explicit’
Frank Battaglia (College of Staten Island/City University of New York): ‘“Haunted by gender”:
Beowulf’s disciplinary discourse
1730-1830: Wine Reception
Wednesday 8 April
1030-1100 Tea/coffee/bookstall
1100-1230 Session 4: The Materiality of Manhood
Duncan Sayer (University of Central Lancashire): ‘The aesthetics of manhood, display and
performance in early Anglo-Saxon Cemeteries’
Kirsty Squires (Staffordshire University): ‘He who has the biggest pyre? Male identity in early
Anglo-Saxon society’
1230-1400 Lunch/bookstall
1400-1600 Session 5: Of Manhood and Maldon
Thijs Porck (Leiden): ‘Hare hilderincas: Old Warriors in Anglo-Saxon England’
Eleni Ponirakis (Nottingham): ‘What is a man in the context of The Battle of Maldon?
Kate Weikert (Winchester): ‘Ealdorman Byrhtnoth: Masculinity in Heroic Defeat’?
1600-1630 Tea/coffee/bookstall
1630-1730 Session 6: Round Table Discussion
A panel of experts will speak briefly on the approaches offered by their individual
specialisations, after which the discussion will be thrown open for questions and comments
from the floor.
Gale Owen-Crocker (Old English Texts/Materiality)
Charles Insley (History, Charters)
Duncan Sayer (Historical Archaeology)
1830 Conference dinner, Hulme Hall