{"id":1302,"date":"2016-03-22T22:55:30","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T22:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/kenthistory\/?p=1302"},"modified":"2016-03-23T09:41:59","modified_gmt":"2016-03-23T09:41:59","slug":"chaucers-canterbury-and-shakespeares-dover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/kenthistory\/chaucers-canterbury-and-shakespeares-dover\/","title":{"rendered":"Chaucer’s Canterbury and Shakespeare’s Dover"},"content":{"rendered":"

I thought I would keep it short this week, not least because I\u2019m pretty busy doing things for the Medieval Canterbury Weekend.<\/a> Just in case you have missed this the box office at www.canterbury.ac.uk\/medieval-canterbury in terms of ticket sales will close this Friday, but tickets will be available to buy at Old Sessions, Canterbury Christ Church on Saturday 2 April (cash payments only) and at the Cathedral Lodge, the Precincts on Sunday 3 April (same arrangements). So please if you are interested do come along. There are lots of fascinating talks, and just considering those under \u2018Books and Manuscripts\u2019, there will be two great lectures on Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts. Firstly on Friday evening Richard Gameson will consider the fabulous St Augustine\u2019s Gospels, seen by contemporaries as relics in their own right, and then on Saturday morning Michelle Brown will look more broadly at the manuscripts and documents produced in Anglo-Saxon Canterbury at two of the most important scriptoria in the land. Sunday will bring us forward in time to the \u2018Age of Chaucer\u2019 and Peter Brown\u2019s entertaining assessment of what was being produced by way of texts by Chaucer\u2019s contemporaries \u2013 another treat.<\/p>\n

\"MichelleBrown\"I have also heard from Martin Watts, who tells me that tickets for his \u2018Richborough through the Ages\u2019 <\/a>are selling. This one-day conference on Saturday 25 June promises to be a great day. Now as a medievalist I am particularly interested to hear what Ges Moody has to say about the area as a contested landscape and Paul Dalton\u2019s assessment of Richborough\u2019s medieval context also looks to be in my area. However I\u2019m sure the modern history lectures will be exciting too, and as an ex-dairy farmer I\u2019ll be interested to hear what John Bulaitis has to say about G.C Solley of King\u2019s End Farm, whose activities in the early 20th century extended well beyond farming!<\/p>\n

I\u2019m also thinking about the autumn, when hopefully the first recipient of an award from the Ian Coulson Memorial Postgraduate fund will be embarking on his\/her new research project towards a higher degree on a Kentish history topic at Canterbury Christ Church. At the moment I\u2019m looking at a one-day conference on \u2018Early Medieval Kent\u2019 on 10 September, and possibly towards another joint lecture with Brook Agricultural Museum, the Nightingale Memorial Lecture. Last year we were treated to a brilliant talk by Canterbury Christ Church\u2019s own John Bulaitis on the \u2018tithe wars\u2019 in early 1930s Kent, a lecture that is still discussed in glowing terms. Indeed it was one of the topics raised at a meeting of the Trustees of the Brook Museum yesterday, and hopefully the next lecture will be equally successful. I have an idea for a potential speaker but before I reveal anything more I want to talk to a few key people. However I am really excited about the prospect, so do watch this space.<\/p>\n

This concept of joint conferences and lectures has been actively embraced by the Centre and I believe the Kent Archaeological Society\u2019s Place-Name conference for 2016 will also take place under such a scheme. Again when I know more details I\u2019ll let you know. To a degree keeping with an archaeological theme, it is probably worth mentioning that Canterbury Archaeological Trust\u2019s \u201840 years\u2019 exhibition at The Beaney will be opening at Easter and will be in The Front Room there for about a month. Andrew Richardson of CAT has also been involved as the honorary curator of the KAS in overseeing the cataloguing of the Society\u2019s artefact collection held at Maidstone Museum. In addition, photos of the pieces are going on the Society\u2019s website making a fantastic resource for teachers, students and those having a more general interest in the county\u2019s archaeological heritage.<\/p>\n

Finally, it was good to see this evening that the BBC\u2019s regional news programme was actively exploring links between Shakespeare and Kent under the banner of the regional and national aspect of Shakespeare 400. Thus it was excellent to watch Liz Finn at the Kent History Library Centre in Maidstone pointing out entries in Dover\u2019s chamberlains\u2019 accounts relating to early modern players, in this case the theatre company linked to the Bard, the King\u2019s Players, who visited the town on more than one occasion. The camera crew had also been to Dover Museum because we were treated to Jon Iveson pointing out details on William Eldred\u2019s fascinating map of the town dated c.1641. So it was great to see Kent\u2019s history brought to life in this way, and it would be equally fantastic to do the same for Canterbury, although hopefully we will not have to wait until the 2020 anniversary of St Thomas Becket\u2019s Translation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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