About this Event
This talk is co-sponsored by the . This talk will be offered in-person.
In-Person Location: The Cargill Lecture Theatre (Room MB0302), Minerva Building, University of Lincoln, Brayford Pool.
Speaker: Dr. Hannah Boston (Lincoln)
The Benedictine Abbey of Crowland was one of the richest religious houses in eastern England, but its history remains surprisingly under-studied. Its chronicle, the Historia Croylandensis, claims to be an eleventh-century account of the abbey's history, which was added to up to the fifteenth century— but was exposed as a late medieval forgery in the nineteenth century and has since been much neglected. This paper will re-examine the Chronicle for the eleventh to thirteenth centuries, and argues that the text contains some genuine early documents that can shed valuable light on the history of the abbey and its county.
Biography:
Hannah Boston is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in Medieval History at the University of Lincoln. She has previously worked as Lecturer in Medieval History at Queen's and Magdalen Colleges, Oxford, and as a field archaeologist. Her first book, Lordship and Locality in the Long Twelfth Century, was published by Boydell and Brewer in January 2024.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
University of Lincoln, Brayford Way, Pool, United Kingdom
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