Study Day: Weapons and Soldiers in late medieval English warfare

Sponsored by the School of Humanities, University of Southampton on behalf of the Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded project, ‘The Soldier in later medieval England’(based at Universities of Reading and Southampton)

Tuesday 30 June 2009

Lecture Theatre A, Avenue campus, University of Southampton

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Free coffee available from 9.30 am at the Avenue cafe

10 am Welcome: Professor Anne Curry, Co-director, AHRC project.

‘Battlefield Archaeology in the late medieval and early modern periods’,
Dr Glenn Foard, University of Leeds/Battlefields Trust

11 am ‘The manufacture and creation of war bows and war arrows’, a multi media presentation
Randall Moffett

12.10 ‘Artillery of Southampton in the Fifteenth Century’,
Randall Moffett

12.40 Lunch. (Sandwiches, hot food and drinks available for purchase in Avenue café, but you can also bring your own food and buy drinks).

1.10 pm – 2.40 pm
‘The Soldier in later medieval England: an overview of the AHRC project’, Dr Adrian Bell, University of Reading, co-director,. AHRC project

Followed by case studies: Crossbowmen in English Armies, 1369-1453’, Dr David Simpkin, University of Reading/AHRC project, The Soldier in later medieval England

‘Gunners and Ordnance Companies in English Armies’, Dr Andy King, University of Southampton/ AHRC project, The Soldier in later medieval England

2.40 pm ‘Tactics and Techné: the diffusion of the technical expert in late medieval and Renaissance warfare’, Professor Steve Walton, Penn State University

3.40 Free tea/coffee, followed by open discussion