A colloquium will be held at Robinson College, Cambridge, from 6–8 September 2002, on the theme of MONASTIC CULTURE IN MEDIEVAL ENGLAND. Speakers at this event include David Bell, Janet Burton, Gillian Evans, John North, Rod Thomson, Tessa Webber and Jocelyn Wogan Browne. Topics addressed include monastic theology, the reading patterns of religious women, monastic historiography, book copying and illumination, wall painting, music, cloister games and recreations, and friendship. There will also be a paper and a performance of monastic polyphony from the fourteenth/fifteenth centuries.

Further information can be obtained from Dr James G. Clark, Department of Historical Studies, University of Bristol, 13 Woodland Road, Bristol BS8 1TB; e-mail: James.Clark@bristol.ac.uk