Regional Furniture Society
Research in Progress: New Thinking about Medieval Furniture

The next meeting in the series of Research in Progress meetings will take place on 13 March 2021 as a Zoom meeting. As with the previous two themed meetings, (Sixteenth-century Furniture and The Regional Chair), speakers will present current research from a variety of perspectives.

PROGRAMME

10:00 (GMT): Introduction (Liz Hancock, RFS Newsletter Editor)

MORNING SESSION (Chair: Chris Pickvance)

10:15: Agnès Bos (University of St Andrews), 'A Reappraisal of the ‘Medieval’ Arconati-Visconti Dressoir at the Louvre’

11:00: Cécile Lagane (Centre Michel de Boüard /CRAHAM, Caen), ‘Evolution and Transformation of Furniture in its Architectural Environment: the Armoires of Bayeux (Normandy) and Aubazine (Limousin)’

11:45: Discussion

12.00: Nick Humphrey (Furniture, Textiles and Fashion Dept., Victoria and Albert Museum, London), ‘A Fifteenth-century Desk-cupboard at the Victoria and Albert Museum’

12:45: Jens Kremb (Independent scholar, Bonn), ‘The Chest of Drawers: a Late Medieval Piece of Furniture?’

1:30: Discussion

1:45: Break

AFTERNOON SESSION (Chair: Nick Humphrey)

2:15: Chris Pickvance (Chairman, RFS), ‘A Closer Look at a Group of English Clamped Chests from 1250-1350: Timber, Construction and Decoration’

3:00: Noah Smith (Scouloudi Fellow, Institute for Historical Research), ‘The ‘Courtrai chest’ at New College, Oxford: Iconography and Materiality’

3:45: Rachel Sycamore (MRes student in Medieval Archaeology, Worcester University), ‘Dug-out Church Chests in Herefordshire and Worcestershire'

4:30: Discussion

4:45: Close

--

The event is free and open to non-members but booking is necessary. Details will be placed on the RFS website in February: www.regionalfurnituresociety.org