Postgraduate Poster Competition
As part of the Medieval History Weekend at Canterbury on 1-3 April 2016, jointly organised by the Centre for Research in Kent History and Archaeology and the Canterbury Cathedral Archives and Library, the organisers invited each British university to submit up to two A0 posters as hard copies produced by individual medieval studies postgraduate students under the heading ‘Making my Research on a Medieval Topic Accessible to the General Public’.
Exhibition 1st - 3rd April 2016
Two cash prizes were awarded, one judged by a panel selected from the speakers at the Weekend and the other voted the best by those attending the various events.
The posters were exhibited at Canterbury Christ Church University in Old Sessions House.Those submitting posters through their university were encouraged to attend the Weekend and had the opportunity to talk about their work to those present.
Judging took place on Friday and Saturday, and the prizes were awarded at the last session on Sunday by Ian Mortimer as the final event of the Weekend.
Winning Poster - Emma Vosper
In 1936, Bernhard Bischoff discovered a series of bibliographical commentaries produced at Canterbury in the 8th century. These were published in 1994, giving scholars access to the scholarship of Anglo-Saxon Canterbury for the first time in nearly 1,000 years.
Emma's research centres on these texts, examining the scholarly interactions that took place between Wearmouth-Jarrow and Canterbury in the seventh and eighth centuries.
Runner-up - Georgina Fitzgibbon
Georgina's doctorate explores the tensions between the idealised image of the Cistercian Order in the twelfth century and actual devotional practice, through an examination of Bernhard of Clairvaux's thoughts on the veneration of sacred objects, the institutional history of the Order, and specific cults.