Leeds Conference Schedule 2008

For the 2008 Conference, July 7-10, 2008, AVISTA offered sessions on the following topics: Session 318, July 7, 4:30 pm Beasts in Art and Artisanry: Technology and Applications of Animal Materials Organizer: Carol Neuman de Vegvar, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware Presider: David H. Kennett, Stratford-upon-Avon College "Bound to Be of Use: Fossil Sea Urchins and Ivory in Merovingian Bound Pendants," Genevra Kombluth, Independent Scholar, Maryland "The Bone Interlude in Middle Saxon England," Ian Riddler, Independent Scholar, Stratton "Oxen and Ploughs: Why Cattle Were So Important in Anglo-Saxon England," Debby Banham, University of Cambridge

Leeds Conference Schedule 2007

For the 2007 Conference, July 9-12, 2007, AVISTA offered sessions on the following topics: Session 1628, July 12, 11:15 am Natural Science and Building Arts in the Late Middle Ages Organizer: Steven A. Walton, Pennsylvania State University Presider: Shana Worthen, University of Arkansas-Little Rock "Structures of Medieval Building in Exigetical and Allegorical Writing," Nigel L. Hiscock, Oxford Brookes University "Panofsky Redux: Gothic Architectural Dynamics and Scholastics (not Scholasticism)," Steven A. Walton, Pennsylvania State University

Leeds Conference Schedule 2005

For the 2005 Conference, July 11-14, 2005, AVISTA offered sessions on the following topics: Session 206, July 11, 2:15 pm Alchemy and Metallurgy: Learning and Doing Organizer: Catherine Eagleton, The British Museum Presider: Catherine Eagleton, The British Museum "Is It Alchemy? Is It Metallurgy? Is It Jewellery?: Archaeology and the Material Culture of the Laboratory," Marcos Martinon-Torres, University College London "'My deere Son I schall teach thee': Education and Instruction in Alchemical Poetry," Anke Timmermann, University of Cambridge "Masters and Apprentices: Becoming a Goldsmith in Late Medieval Northern Europe," David Humphrey, Royal College of Art, London Session 1501, July 14, 9:00 am Medieval Woodworking: From Texts to Instruments Organizer: Steven A. Walton, Pennsylvania State University Presider: Catherine Eagleton, The British Museum "Mortice or Tenon: Medieval Woodworking in Craft Treatises," Steven A. Walton, Pennsylvania State University "Woodworking Evidence in Henri Arnault of Zwolle's 15th-Century Musical Instrument Manuscript," Lewis Jones, London Metropolitan University "Might Medieval Luthiers Have Been Geometers?: Proportional Design and Stringed Musical Instruments Before 1400," Alice C. Margerum, London Metropolitan University "Early 15th-Century Tools and Methods of the Woodworker: Modern Reflections," Andrew M. Atkinson, London Metropolitan University Session 1601, July 14, 11:15 am Medieval Metalworking: From Ore to Object Organizer: Catherine Eagleton, The British Museum Presider: Steven A. Walton, Pennsylvania State University "The Technology and Economics of Iron Smelting in 14th-Century Northwest Wales," Michael F. Charlton, University College London "Metals and Metalworking: Use and Manufacture in Medieval England," Kevin Leahy, Portable Antiques Scheme, Scunthorpe "Medieval Approaches to the History of Metalwork," Shana Worthen, University of Arkansas-Little Rock

Leeds Conference Schedule 2002

For the 2002 Conference, July 8-11, 2002, AVISTA offered sessions on the following topics: Session 1104, July 10, 11:15 am De Re Metallica I: All That Glitters: Craft and Display in Medieval Secular Metalwork Organizer: Carol von Neuman de Vegvar, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware Presider: Carol von Neuman de Vegvar, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware "Gold in the Ground or Just Rust in the Dust: Measuring Wealth by Metalwork in Anglo-Saxon Graves," Gale R. Owen-Crocker, University of Manchester "Display of Scandinavian Migration Period Bractreates and Other Pendant Jewelry as a Reflection of Prestige and Identity," Nancy L. Wicker, University of Mississippi "The Role and Status of Goldsmiths in Anglo-Saxon England," Elizabeth Coatsworth, Manchester Metropolitan University "Une bague du XIUIIe siècle et ses inscriptions: Entre identité et pouvoir, magie et prophylaxie," Elisabeth Antoine, Musée National du Moyen Age, Paris Session 1204, July 10, 2:15 pm De Re Metallica II: All that Might Not Glitter: Metals for Worldly Goods Organizer: Steven A. Walton, Pennsylvania State University Presider: Steven A. Walton, Pennsylvania State University "The Making and Maintaining of a 13th-Century Lead Water Conduit: The Carmelite's Friary Pipe, Bristol, England," Julian Lea-Jones, Bristol Historical Research "'Brightness in Time of Dark': The Production of Secular Metalwork in 9th-Century Northumbria," Gabor Thomas, University of Kent, Canterbury "Regulations for Schlackenwalden Tin Mines, Bohemia, 1548," Peter L. Siems, University of Idaho, Moscow Session 1304, July 10, 4:30 pm De Re Metallica III: Metal Reliquaries and Liturgical Objects Organizer: Scott B. Montegomery, University of North Texas Presider: Scott B. Montegomery, University of North Texas "Mathilde's Cross and Theophano's Reliquary: Liturgical Metalwork from Ottonian Essen," Karen Loaiza Blough, Plattsburgh State University, New York "Romanesque Portrait Reliquaries and the Imprinted Likeness," Thomas E. Dale, University of Wisconsin, Madison "Art Imitates Architecture: A Relic of Saint Philip and Its Reliquary in Quattrocento Florence," Sally J. Cornelison, University of Kansas, and Scott B. Montgomery, University of North Texas Session 1504, July 11, 9:00 am De Re Metallica IV: Architectural Uses of Metals Organizer: Ellen Shortell, Massachussetts College of Art Presider: Robert Bork, University of Iowa "Metal Use at the Cistercian Church of Altenberg," Sabine Lepsky, Forschung am Bau GbR, and Norbert Nussbaum, Universität Köln "Solid as a Rock: Poured Lead Joints in Medieval Masonry," Jenny Alexander, University of Warwick Session 1604, July 11, 11:15 am De Re Metallica V: More Architectural Uses of Metals Organizer: Robert Bork, University of Iowa Presider: Ellen Shortell, Massachussetts College of Art "Piú Ferro che Marmo: Iron and Lead in the Construction of Milan Cathedral," Charles Morscheck, Drexel University "Ironwork at the Top: A Medieval Jigsaw Puzzle in Salisbury Cathedral's Spire," A. Richard Jones, AVISTA "Considering the Ideas of Technology Transfer, with Special Reference to Medieval Architecture," Steven A. Walton, Pennsylvania State University

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