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PROGRAMME OF EVENTS
◊ Fri 12 Jun Mediaeval Banquet
◊ Sat 13 Jun Exhibitions
◊ Camelford Gallery Exhibitions
◊ Camelford Museum Exhibitions
◊ Sun 14 Jun Beating the Bounds
◊ Fri 19 Jun Concert by Cam Town Band
◊ Sun 21 Jun Washaway W. Gallery Choir
◊ Sat 27 Jun Seminar at St. Thomas
◊ Mediaeval Crafts Day
◊ Concert of Mediaeval Music
◊ Tue 30 Jun Reading the Riot Act
◊ Children’s Charter
◊ Generous Local Supporters
◊ Historical Background
◊ Sat 04 Jul Jousting and Manly Sports
◊ Wed 08 Jul Tartuffe by Moliére
◊ Thu 09 Jul Trigg Morris Men
◊ Fri 10 Jul Ale Tasting
◊ Sat 11 Jul Pageant and Fair
◊ Sun 12 Jul C13 Mediaeval Latin Mass
◊ Richard, Earl of Cornwall
◊ Sat 13 Jun Exhibitions
◊ Camelford Gallery Exhibitions
◊ Camelford Museum Exhibitions
◊ Sun 14 Jun Beating the Bounds
◊ Fri 19 Jun Concert by Cam Town Band
◊ Sun 21 Jun Washaway W. Gallery Choir
◊ Sat 27 Jun Seminar at St. Thomas
◊ Mediaeval Crafts Day
◊ Concert of Mediaeval Music
◊ Tue 30 Jun Reading the Riot Act
◊ Children’s Charter
◊ Generous Local Supporters
◊ Historical Background
◊ Sat 04 Jul Jousting and Manly Sports
◊ Wed 08 Jul Tartuffe by Moliére
◊ Thu 09 Jul Trigg Morris Men
◊ Fri 10 Jul Ale Tasting
◊ Sat 11 Jul Pageant and Fair
◊ Sun 12 Jul C13 Mediaeval Latin Mass
◊ Richard, Earl of Cornwall
Seminar
Saturday, 27 June 2009
Saturday, 27 June 2009
Joanna Raymond-Barker was the sole organiser of the Study Day held at St Thomas’s Church on 27 June. Out of respect for her and her work four speakers, all acknowledged experts in their own fields, agreed to come and share their knowledge with about fifty interested people from all over Cornwall.
Dr Oliver Padel’s talk was entitled “Language and Stories : Camelford and Cornwall in the 13th Century”*. As ever, Dr Padel was informative and entertaining, telling us that the Charter would have been signed between May 1257 and June 1260.
After coffee Professor Martha Carlin from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee gave a fascinating talk called “The Past in Letters : Lost Letters of Everyday Life from Early Thirteenth-Century England*”. She showed us ‘pro forma’ letters that would cover many everyday situations.
Before lunch Dr Joanna Mattingly gave us a talk with slides about Church Building*, majoring on Lanteglos Church and the Holy Well of St Julitta, the subjects of the afternoon walk.
Lunch was provided for the speakers, while the audience went into Camelford to find something to eat, and everyone reassembled at Lanteglos Church in the afternoon where Andrew Langdon talked on the collection of crosses at Lanteglos, followed by the walk to Juliot’s Well, described by Dr Mattingly.
Everyone returned to St Thomas’s Church for a cup of tea before leaving for home.
