Tameside Castle Excavations

A team from the Center for Applied Archaeology at the University of Salford have concluded that the castle, begun by the Earl of Chester during the Anarchy, was never completed. King Stephen had granted the Scottish king lands for which the Earl had a competing title; the castle seems to have been intended to guard the border and protect the Earl's claim.

Upcoming Conferences

Sessions at the International Medieval Congress, Kalamazoo:
13 Constructing Sacred Spaces and Worldly Authority: From Interior Spiritual Refuge
to Empire, Twelfth to Sixteenth Centuries
84 The Study of the Art and Architecture of Italy: A Reassessment of the Discipline I
131 The Study of the Art and Architecture of Italy: A Reassessment of the Discipline II
257 The Study of the Art and Architecture of Italy: A Reassessment of the Discipline III
259 Art and Architecture in the Era of the Book of Kells
302 Cistercian Architecture
315 The Study of the Art and Architecture of Italy: A Reassessment of the Discipline IV
417 Glazing and Stained Glass: Collaborations, Analogies, and Investigations involving
Stained Glass and Other Disciplines I
473 Glazing and Stained Glass: Collaborations, Analogies, and Investigations involving
Stained Glass and Other Disciplines II
527 Spatial Practices in Medieval German Culture I
533 Innovative and Participatory Imaginative and Fictive Architecture in the High and
Late Middle Ages (1200–1600)
566 In, Out, Up, Down, and Through: Innovative and Participatory Physical
Architecture in the High and Late Middle Ages (1200–1600)
573 Science and Religious Thought: A Comparative Approach

Last Orders: the Art and Architecture of Religious Orders in England, c.1350-1540, held at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, May 17, 2011

4th International Congress on Construction History, Paris, July 3-July 7 2012