Leeds IMC 2025
The Yorkist History Trust has sponsored four panels at the 2025 Leeds International Medieval Congress. Panels will take place on Tuesday 8th July and will be followed by a reception hosted by the Trust.
The Wars of the Roses I: Stories of the Death of Princes: royal blood, rumour and commemoration
Tuesday 8th July, 2025, 09:00-10.30
Laura Rosenheim, ‘Thomas of Woodstock’s Reburial and the Politics of Royal Kinship’
Gabriella Williams, ‘The Alleged Murder of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester: Origins, Dissemination and Impact of Rumours During the Wars of the Roses’
Dr J L Laynesmith, ‘Bastardy Narratives and Edward V’s Missing Reign: Rewriting History in Ricardian Pedigrees’
The Wars of the Roses II: Beyond the Battlefields: civilians, widows and the wounded
Tuesday 8th July, 2025, 11:15-12:45
Dr Gordon McKelvie, ‘Civilians and the Wars of the Roses’
Julie Bungey, ‘”[T]his work will not remain useless and forgotten” How practical was Christine de Pizan’s advice in her book “The Treasure of the City of Ladies” for English aristocratic widows during the long fifteenth century?’
Tig Lang, ‘A prescription for prediction? Wound potions in the fifteenth century.’
The Wars of the Roses III: Devotion and Identity in Royal Foundations and the Parish
Tuesday 8th July, 2025, 14:15-15:45
Dr Virginia Bainbridge, ‘A Political Game? Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville as ‘Founders’ and Patrons’
Dr Anthony Musson, ‘Reputation and Rivalry in Early Tudor Chapels, 1485-1525’
Weiliang Xu, ‘Baptism, Font Covers, and Learning through Microarchitecture’
The Wars of the Roses IV: Readers and Scribes in Commemoration and Civic Government
Tuesday 8th July, 2025, 16:30-18:00
Dr Richard Asquith, ‘Be yt remembered’: Scribal Practice and the Copying of Last Wills and Testaments in Late Medieval London
Dr Adele Ryan Sykes, ‘“Since human memory is fallible”: Documentary Culture and Civic Learning in Later Medieval London’
Dr Nicholas Babich, ‘Memento, homo, quod cinis es: The Marginalia Traditions of Erthe in Late Medieval England’
Tuesday 8th July, 2025, 19:45-20:45, University House: Woodhouse Suite