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SUMMARY:The Duke of York & Wakefield: Shocking New Insights
DESCRIPTION:What really happened at Wakefield? \nTraditional accounts of the Wars of the Roses describe the Duke of York losing his head\, and the Earl of Rutland his life\, after a martial conflict with the forces of Henry VI in Wakefield\, Yorkshire. These deaths were a pivotal moment in English history\, as they paved the way for Edward IV and the Yorkist dynasty. Some historians say there had been a pitched battle; others say it was an ambush not far from Sandal Castle where duke was residing with his family. Exciting new research into medieval archives\, however\, reveals another interpretation that busts almost all the myths and legends about the duke’s death and the events of 30 December 1460. \nPaul Lindsey Dawson will talk about his research and how it shows the duke was not killed in Wakefield but rather Pontefract\, under circumstances very different from a pitched battle. He will also talk about his new biography on the Duke of York\, which reveals him to be a man with profound flaws that threw England into turmoil and cost him his own life. \nDawson is an archaeologist\, historian\, musician and horseman. Specializing in the long 18th century\, 1688-1832\, his focus of research is on the interplay of religious and political dissent with notions of state and nationalism. He is perhaps better known for a ground breaking series of books on the Army of Napoleon\, Waterloo and the French experience of World War 2.
URL:https://r3.org/event/the-duke-of-york-wakefield-shocking-new-insights/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Zoom Lecture
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SUMMARY:Picturing the Future: Prognostications and Readers in an Age of Uncertainty
DESCRIPTION:Beginning in 1400\, English men and women gained increasing access to practical medical and scientific knowledge\, first in vernacular manuscript collections\, and later in inexpensive\, printed books. More than two hundred years of engagement with this knowledge—much of it very old—in recipes\, prognostications\, almanacs\, and other pragmatic texts\, gradually encouraged readers to see themselves as adjudicators and even progenitors of knowledge in their own right. This talk explores how 15th century readers developed creative means of using an unusual genre of manuscript to manage their health\, understand their environment\, and even predict the future. Through analysis of a small group of folding almanacs\, this talk will show how communities of monastic readers developed a shared visual language for making sense of an uncertain and unpredictable world. We will see how this visual language spread more widely to those who sought to impose order in society that was unsettled by war\, dynastic feuding\, and religious conflicts. \nDr. Melissa Reynolds is a historian of later medieval and early modern European medicine and science\, with research interests in the history of material texts and the history of the body in relation to its environment. She is an Assistant Professor in the History department at Texas Christian University and was formerly a postdoctoral fellow in the Society of Fellows at Princeton University and the Wolf Humanities Center at the University of Pennsylvania. Her first book\, Reading Practice: The Pursuit of Natural Knowledge from Manuscript to Print\,  published by the University of Chicago Press in 2024\, was awarded the John Ben Snow Prize from the North American Conference on British Studies\, and was recently shortlisted for the William H. Welch Medal from the American Association for the History of Medicine. She is currently at work on a new project\, exploring the relationship between commerce\, environment\, and conceptualizations of the body in later medieval and early modern England. \nIn 2013\, Dr. Reynolds won a Schallek Award from the Richard III Society-American Branch while she was working on her PhD at Rutgers University in New Jersey. \n \n 
URL:https://r3.org/event/picturing-the-future-prognostications-and-readers-in-an-age-of-uncertainty/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Zoom Lecture
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SUMMARY:Margaret of York:  Medieval Powerbroker
DESCRIPTION:Dr Lacey Bonar Hull\, popular podcaster and educator at The History Desk substack\, will speak about Richard III’s sister\, Margaret\, the Duchess of Burgundy and a stalwart enemy of Henry Tudor. Despite being a woman\, Margaret fearlessly blazed her own destiny as well as that of the Burgundian state. \nStay turned – details forthcoming! \nWilliam Caxton offering book to Margaret of York\, MS at Huntingdon Library\, US (public domain)
URL:https://r3.org/event/margaret-of-york-medieval-powerbroker/
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SUMMARY:General Membership Meeting in New Haven\, CT
DESCRIPTION:Save the Date!!! The Board of Directors has set the next GMM for October 30 through November 1\, 2026. \nThe venue of the meeting will be the Omni Hotel in New Haven\, CT\, which is right on the edge of Yale University’s campus. We are currently planning a very special event at the Beinecke Library\, pictured above\, one of the largest and most important collections of medieval manuscripts in North America. More details of the program will be announced in early 2026\, so keep an eye out then. \nYale Campus in New Haven\n 
URL:https://r3.org/event/general-membership-meeting-in-new-haven-ct-2/
CATEGORIES:In Person Meeting
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