On 6 and 7 June in the offices of FOVOG - the "Forschungsstelle für Vergleichende Ordensgeschichte -   (This is an institute in the University of Dresden, Germany, which specialises in the comparative study of religious orders.) a symposium was held entitled Historiography and Identity. Responses to Medieval Carmelite Culture organised by Dr. Coralie Zermatten and Dr. Jens Röhrkasten (University of Birmingham). Among the speakers were Edeltraud Klueting who spoke on Carmelite decorations in the churches, chapters houses and refectories of the houses of the medieval Lower German province; Johan Bergström-Allen: "Religious and Secular Order: The Poetry of Richard Maidstone, O.Carm."; Andrew Jotischky (University of Lancaster): "Crusading and Crusaders in Medieval Carmelite Texts: William of Coventry and the Holy Land"; Hans-Joachim Schmidt who spoke on the Carmelites' relations with other mendicant orders in the late medieval period; Christa Gardner von Teuffel: "The Invention of History: Altarpieces for the Carmelites circa 1300-1550"; Helmut Flachenecker, who spoke on Carmelites in Franconia; Kevin Alban: "Thomas Netter, Identity through Orthodoxy". On the evening of 6th June the participants were treated to a concert of madrigals by Bartolino da Padua O. Carm. performed by Federico Truffi. The proceedings will be published later in the year.