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Trebuchet to Cannon: Military Technology 1000-1600

Conference and workshop at Middelaldercentret, 26-29 July 2010

For the last two decades the Middelaldercentret in Denmark has carried out research into the construction and performance of medieval military technologies. Since 2001, the Ho Group (dedicated to the study of early gunpowder and gunpowder weapons) has met toexperiment with gunpowder recipes and reconstructed artillery. The tenth meeting of the Ho Group will be an international conference to discuss all aspects of medieval military technology, including artillery, siege engines, gunpowder and cannon, and other weapons.

The Organizing Committee extends an invitation to all those interested in this area—textual scholars, experimental archaeologists, curators and historians—to attend and present their work and discuss solutions to, and further problems in, the understanding of military technologies in the Middle Ages. The conference will include a series of workshops and hands-on demonstrations by the Ho Group of medieval technologies, including trebuchets, gunpowder and incendiary weapons, and reconstructions of cannon.

The conference will be four days in length, with three days of papers and workshops, one day-long excursion, and a closing banquet with Renaissance fireworks. The venue will be the Middelaldercentret (Danish Medieval Centre) and the adjacent Femern Link Hotel & Conference Centre. The primary language will be English. Presented papers will be considered for publication.

Call for Papers
The organizers request a brief abstract for a paper proposal or an expression of interest to attend without presenting a paper by 15 November 2009. Full details of the conference and accommodation fees will be finalized by the end of 2009, with a registration deadline of 15 May 2010.

For more information or to submit your proposal (200 words, along with a brief CV), please contact Robert Smith at HoX@basiliscoe.fsnet.co.uk

Information about the newly-renovated hotel right next to the Medieval Centre. Their homepage is soon running.

More information

Se more about the Ho-project and the Ho Group here

Information about the Medieval Centre: in english, in german

Se siden Krudt og kanoner (in danish)

Reports from the Ho Group:

Skydning i Ho, september 2002.
Report 1.

Skydning i Ho,  august 2003.
Report 2

Udvinding af salpeter, august 2004.
Report 3.

Svovludvinding på Island, august 2005
Report 4.

Investigating incendiary devices, september 2008
Report 8

Ho seminar 2009 (in danish)

Click above and get the pdf with the invitation to the seminar and call for papers.