The Northern Way: Getting to grips with the C14 York Archbishops’ Registers

Description

This workshop, taking place at the Medieval and Early Modern Studies Festival at the University of Kent, will explore some of the riches contained within the registers that were used to record the business of the Archbishops’ of York between 1304 and 1305. ‘The Northern Way’ project, run by the University of York, in partnership with The National Archives, has received funding of almost £1m from the AHRC. ‘The Northern Way’ seeks to make the content from the 16 registers and other related documents more easily searchable and accessible through the development of a digital resource. The workshop will introduce the project and demonstrate how the resource and index can shed light on a wide range of topics and previously hidden histories. It will also offer the opportunity to work with facsimiles of some of the original documents, with a tutorial on extracting key information from the documents. Find out more about Archbishop Melton’s reaction to Joan of Leeds, a nun from the Priory of St Clements, York, who faked her own death in order to escape the convent in 1318. Joan crafted a dummy in the likeness of her body and misled her fellow religious into burying it in sacred ground, before leaving the convent to pursue ‘the way of carnal lust’. The registers provide key insights into the religious and political role of the province and its relationship with central government, as well as giving fascinating insights into the culture and networks of the period.

Period	15 Jun 2019
Held at	University of Kent, United Kingdom
Degree of Recognition	National