Courses I'm running elsewhere in England in 2008
If you live far from our study-centre at Sutton Hoo, you might find one of the courses listed below more within reach.
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| Formidable Women of Early England |
A reassessment of the power of English women from the 6th to the 10th centuries - we shall see how pre-Christian female power was realised in early Christian England by royal abbesses such as St Æthelthryth (Audrey), founding abbess of Ely. We shall also look at the farmer’s wife who famously chastised King Alfred for his poor cooking skills, as well as the formidable Queen Ælfthryth, who appears to have provided the model for Shakespeare’s Lady Macbeth. . |
Cotswold Conference Centre, Farncombe Estate, Broadway, Worcestershire |
Friday 4th July - Sunday 6th July 2008 (Residential Weekend) |
Farncombe Estate enquiries@farncombeestate.co.uk tel. 01386 854 100 |
| Formidable Abbesses of Early England | A reassessment of the power of early English women - we shall see how pre-Christian female power was realised in early Christian England by the impressive numbers of canonised royal abbesses such as St Æthelthryth (Audrey), founding abbess of Ely, or St Hilda of Whitby. We shall also look at the formidable Ælfthryth, who appears to have provided the model for Shakespeare’s Lady Macbeth. . |
Belstead House, Ipswich, Suffolk
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Friday 11th - Sunday 13th July 2008 (Residential Weekend) |
Belstead House belstead.house@educ.suffolkcc.gov.uk tel. 01473 686 321
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| St Edmund and the Decline of the Wuffing Kingdom of East Anglia |
This course provides a guided exploration of the history and culture of East Anglia and England from the eighth to early eleventh centuries. Following mainly the splendid narrative of that Old Testament of English history, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, we shall consider closely the martyrdom of St Edmund in history and legend before charting the subsequent history of the region under the Danish and West Saxon overlords. |
Madingley Hall, Cambridge | Tuesday 29th July – Friday 1st August 2008 |
course code 78R224 University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education Website www.cont-ed.cam.ac.uk tel. 01954 280 200 |