Reuter Masterclass Archive

Reuter Masterclass and Prize 2010

Re-presenting the Past: Material Things and Uncertainty 
The Reuter Masterclass 2010, a day of papers by doctoral candidates and early-career researchers chaired by Prof. Sheila Bonde, took place on Tuesday 18 May. Details of the papers and winner are given below. 

• 10.30 - 11.15 
  Erika Corradini, ‘The objects of knowledge: reconstructing medieval communities through a material analysis of manuscripts’. 
  Discussion.
• 11.15 - 12.00 
  Gemma Watson, ‘Material things and the written historical record: an inter-disciplinary approach to a life-history of Roger Machado’. (Winner)
  Discussion.
• 12.00 - 13.00 Lunch
• 13.00 - 13.45 
  George Oppitz-Trotman, ‘“ ... multitudes, with halters about their necks”: social identity and the uncertain symbolism of the late medieval and early modern halter’. 
  Discussion.
• 13.45 - 14.30 
  Catriona Murray, ‘“Great Britaine, all in Blacke”: The Commemoration of Henry, Prince of Wales, in a Portrait of his Father, King James I’. Discussion.
• 14.30 - 15.00 General discussion
  

Reuter Masterclass 2008

• 10.00 - 11.20am. Cultural Exchanges
  Tehmina Goskar, 'Material Worlds: The Shared Cultures of Southern Italy and its Neighbours in the 11th and 12th Centuries'
  John-Henry Wilson Clay, 'Prope marcam paganorum: Defining the Hessian Mission Frontier of Saint Boniface'
• 11.40 - 1.00 Devotions
  Chris Macklin, 'Plague, Performance, and the Strange History of the Votive Composition Stella coeli extirpavit'
  Barbara Gaspar, 'The Politics of Marian Devotion in the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Period' (Winner)
• 2.00 - 3.20 Misbehaviours
  Hannah Wheeler, 'Stereotyping Students: Student Misbehaviour in 13th- and Early 14th-Century Paris'
  Helen Wicker, 'Vernacular Politics and the Definition of Deviance in the Coventry Leet Book'