Exploring Medieval Oxford through Surviving Archives Conference

Friday, 29 May 2026, 9am to 4.30pm

Conference with an exhibition curated by the participants.

09:00-09:15 Welcome Matthew Holford & Laure Miolo
09:15-09:30 Lauren Pidgeon & Deborah Seymour: An agreement between Agatha the widow and John Halegod
09:30-09:45 Emily Breithaupt & India Kelly: The Charter of Alice Of Stokes
09:45-10:00 Alice Zhang & Annabel Brodersen: A Study of Christ Church F. 48: Property Ownership in Thirteenth-Century St Aldates, Oxford
10:00-10:30 Natasha Jenman (History, St Edmund Hall): Jews in the Queen’s Gold Accounts of Eleanor of Castile
10:30-10:45 Marina Giraudeau & Philine Ambuster: Renting and Salvation: The Tenancy Agreement of Christ Church F. 17
10:45-11:15 Break
11:15-11:45 Teresa Witcombe (History, Wadham College): Captives and slaves in medieval Castilian archives
11:45-12:00 Tabitha Claydon: At the “insistence” of an “intervening” king
12:00-12:45 Julian Munby (Conted, Oxford): Mapping medieval Oxford from the archives
12:45-14:00 Lunch
14:00-14:30 Richard Allen (Magdalen College): Towards a new edition of the cartulary and charters of the Hospital of St John the Baptist, Oxford
14:30-14:45 Kevin Hoff & Cara Nicholls: Christina Pady and the Priory of St. Frideswide
14:45-15:00 Hannele Hellerstedt, Holly Smith & Vanessa Emmet: Land and Legacy: The Life of Hugo de Plugenet
15:00-15:15 Louise Keitsch: Giving up (on) everything?
15:15-15:30 Yijia Wang & Luka Luhai: Cumin, Lamp, and Obligation: Making Continuity in a Medieval Oxford Parish
15:30-16:15 Dan Wakelin (English Faculty, St Hilda’s College): Late medieval letters: disorderly archives
16:15-16:30 Daniel Dias & Charlotte Visconsi: Copying Amidst Conflict: Reproducing Castilian Law in the Wake of Civil War, (1437-1445)

Venue: Weston Library - Weston Library Broad Street Oxford Oxfordshire OX1 3BG United Kingdom

Department: History (Department)

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