IMC 2005: Sessions

Session 720: Isaiah in Ryedale: The Monastic Landscape of Early Medieval York and its Hinterland, I

Sponsor:	Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds
Organiser:	Richard Morris, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds / School of Music, Humanities & Media, University of Huddersfield
Moderator/Chair:	Katy Cubitt, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York
Respondent:	Thomas Pickles, Wadham College, University of Oxford
Paper 720-a	York and the Continent in the Pre-Viking Age (Language: English) Ian N. Wood, School of History, University of Leeds
Paper 720-b	The Monastic Landscape of Ryedale c. 650-850 (Language: English) Richard Morris, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds / School of Music, Humanities & Media, University of Huddersfield
Paper 720-c	Hovingham and Kirkdale: A New Review (Language: English) Lorna Watts, Independent Scholar, Yorkshire Philip Rahtz, Department of Archaeology, University of York
Abstract	Many of the churches that border the western end of the Vale of Pickering in North Yorkshire show signs of having existed since the 7th or 8th century. Some of these churches, certainly, were originally monastic; others offer claims to have been so. While they have been studied individually, they have seldom been considered as a group. These two sessions will proposethat a number of them were affiliated, weigh the significance of such a confederation in relation to the religious life in York and other centres, and examine its legacy.