Spring Conference: Peterhouse, Cambridge,
26-29 March 2004.

The 2004 annual spring conference was held at Peterhouse College, Cambridge and organised by Dr Oliver Padel.

Programme.

Friday 26 March.

2.00 - 6.00 Arrival and registration; visit to Parker Library.
Please go first to the Peterhouse Porters' Lodge: they will give you the key to your room, and direct you to the Lubbock Room to register your arrival at the conference. Tea will be available in the Lubbock Room during the afternoon.
The Parker Library in Corpus Christi College: Dr Christopher de Hamel, Parker Librarian, has kindly agreed to put on an exhibition specially for members of the conference (mainly of Anglo-Saxon manuscripts, but also some Welsh and other ones, including the autograph copy of William Worcester's Itineraries). Go to the Porters' Lodge of Corpus (five minutes' walk into town from Peterhouse) and ask to be directed to the library, where Professor Ray Page, former Parker Librarian, and others will welcome you. Please note that the library cannot accommodate more than a dozen or so viewers at a time, so anyone who can should go early, in order to spread the load.

6.00 Bar open (until 11.00);
council meeting (in the Small Parlour, G staircase).
7.15 Dinner at Peterhouse.
8.45 Welcome by Mr Ian Fraser (Edinburgh), President of the Society.
(Chair: Dr Oliver Padel)
Dr Rosemary Horrox (Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge): Introduction to Medieval Cambridge.

Saturday 27 March.

8.15 - 9.00 Breakfast.
9.15 - 11.00 (Chair: Dr Carole Hough)
Arthur Owen (Lincolnshire): Gates and gotes in east Lincolnshire: land drainage records as a source for name studies.
Stella Pratt (University of Glasgow): The Anglo-Saxon element in Scottish topographical place-names.
Dr Alan James (Derbyshire): Why Cymry and Cumbria?
11.00 - 11.30 Coffee
11.30 - 12.30 (Chair: Mr Peter McClure)
Helen Watt and Jonathan Mackman: The E.179 Project: Lay Subsidies in the National Archives.
12.30 Bar open. 1.00 Lunch.
2.15 - 4.00 (Chair: Professor Hywel Wyn Owen)
Professor Joan Greatrex (Cambridge): Who were the monks of Ely?
Dr Meredith Cane (University of Wales, Aberystwyth): The Welsh adoption of Norman personal names.
John Rowlands & Sheila Rowlands.(Aberystwyth): From patronymics to settled surnames in Wales.
4.00 - 4.30 Tea.
4.30 - 6.00 (Chair: Dr David Parsons)
Professor David Dumville (Girton College, Cambridge): The Northumbrian Liber Vitae: some historical and onomastic problems.
Professor Patrick Sims-Williams (University of Wales, Aberystwyth): From Vobrix to Sabrina: objectivity and subjectivity in the identification of Continental Celtic place­ names.
6.00 Bar open (until 11.00). 7.15 Dinner.
8.45 (Chair: Mr Ian Fraser)
Dr Kay Muhr (Northern Ireland Place-Name Project, Queen's University, Belfast): Surnames from saints' names in Ireland and Scotland.

Sunday 28 March.

8.15 - 9.00 Breakfast.
9.15 Annual General Meeting of the Society.

10.30 Bus departs for SuttonHoo.
12.00 Estimated arrival at Sutton Hoo.
Members will have two hours in which to view the indoor exhibition and obtain lunch independently in the cafe; at 2.00, Professor Simon Keynes (Trinity College, Cambridge) will show us around the outdoor site. Please bring money to pay (separately) for your lunch.
3.00 Bus departs from Sutton Hoo.

Visitor Centre at Sutton Hoo.

4.30 Tea at Peterhouse.
5.00 - 6.15 (Chair: Mr Donall Mac Giolla Easpaig)
Dr Paul Russell (Pembroke College, Cambridge): Cunedda, Briafael: fossilised phonology in Brittonic personal names.
Dr Maire Ni Mhaonaigh (St John's College, Cambridge): Lochlann, an Irish literary place­ name.
6.15 Bar open (until 11.00). 7.15 Dinner.
8.45 (Chair: Dr Diana Whaley)
Peter Kitson (University of Birmingham): Duvengael, a Strathclyde (?) figure in Arthurian romance.

Monday 29 March.

8.15 - 9.00 Breakfast.
9.30 Council meeting (in the Small Parlour, G staircase).

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