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OUR PROGRAMMES
Learning Adventures Programme in England
Travel and learn with the experts! Come and join historians on exclusive travel learning experiences in Oxford, at Herstmonceux Castle in East Sussex, and Canterbury. Watch this spot for upcoming 2009 programme.
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Highlights from past summer programmes Medieval Pilgrimage - "Itinerary" A
unique combination of lectures, presentations, and guided visits to major
historical sites in Sussex, Kent, and culminating in Canterbury, the premier
pilgrimage destination in medieval Britain. The
first part of our trip is based in the 15th-century Herstmonceux Castle near
the Southeastern coast of England, in the heart of '1066 Country' where
William the Conqueror landed during his bid for the English throne. From the
castle, which is the first brick castle in England and now houses a fully
functioning university campus and conference centre, we will explore the path
of the Normans as they moved in following the Battle of Hastings. The abbey
at Battle, built as a penance by William for his role in the bloodshed of the
battle, commemorates the exact site where the English army led by Harold
fell. The second part of the programme is based in Canterbury at the County Hotel located right in the pedestrianised High Street of the city. We will visit the many sites in Canterbury associated with the earliest Christian holy shrines - St. Martin of Tours church, where the Frankish Christian queen of Kent, Bertha, and her Frankish retinue worshipped even before the English were converted to Christianity. St. Augustine's Abbey, built just outside the Roman city walls to house the large community of Benedictine monks who had come from Rome to evangelize the Anglo-Saxons. Your tour organiser and leader is Professor Monica Sandor, a medieval historian trained at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, University of Toronto and now working at the International Academy for Spirituality in Brussels, Belgium. |
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Herstmonceux
Castle is the site of Queen's University's International Study Centre. It
plays host to numerous study tours and short courses in addition to the
regular university courses taught there. |
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STUDY TOURS Medieval Pilgrimage - "Itinerary"
For further information please contact: Wandering Scholars: info@wanderingscholars.com
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