Author: Elaine Pereira Farrell
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Reading and Understanding Medieval Rites
The lecture delivered this afternoon (03.11.16 @15:15) by Prof Sarah Hamilton (U. of Exeter) was inspiring. She discussed the importance of working with liturgical texts and the difficulties of dealing with them. She analysed a number of similar ad hod formulae for excommunication, which provided forms of maledictions against the person being anathematised. They are found mainly in…
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UCD Mícheál Ó Cléirigh Seminars
Brian MacCuarta (Archivum Romanum Societatis Iesu): ‘An Irish convert in Rome and Spain in the mid-1590s: Henry Piers (1567-1623)’
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An Tobar: A two-day workshop on Holy Well and Sacred Springs
Location: Co. Waterford, Ireland Dates: 26-27 June 2017 Organized by: Celeste Ray, Sewanee: the University of the South & Shane Lordan, University College Dublin Call for papers open. 105 words. Deadline: 15 February 2017. Please email to: cray.lordan@ucd.ie and/or shane.lordan@.ucd.ie
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UCD Mícheál Ó Cléirigh Seminars
Hiram Morgan (UCC): ‘“The blood of the English”: Edmund Spenser and the Munster revolt of 1598.’
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Interesting Recent Publications
Yaniv Fox, Yosi Yisraeli. Contesting Inter-Religious Conversion in the Medieval World. (Routledge, 2017). R. Flechner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh (eds.) The Introduction of Christianity into the Early Medieval Insular World. (Brepols, 2016) M. Diesenberger, R. Meens, H.G.E. Rose (eds.) The Prague Sacramentary: Culture, Religion, and Politics in Late Eighth-Century Bavaria (Brepols, 2016). Steffen Patzold, Carine van Rhijn (eds). Men in…
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Handbooks for Carolingian priests III – an international workshop
Image Source: Wikimedia Commons/Manuscript: Wien, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, cod.652, fol. 2v (Fulda, 2nd quarter of the 9th century) Utrecht, November 4th, 9.00 – 17.00, Janskerkhof 15A, room 0.04 On Friday, November 4th, a small international group of experts will gather in Utrecht to discuss a fascinating and little studied corpus of Carolingian manuscripts: those once used…
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UCMS lectures- Sarah Hamilton
Reading and Understanding Medieval Rites 3 November | 15.15-17.00 | Drift 21, 1.05 As Margot Fassler has observed ‘the liturgy is the one place where textual communities remained oral communities.’ But the written records of the liturgy, its rites, often appear allusive and conservative, grounded in earlier textual traditions; they therefore pose their own particular…
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UCD Micháel Ó Cléirigh Seminars October-December 2016
Annejulie Lafaye (Discovery Programme): ‘Kilmallock borough and Dominican priory: Medieval planning, patronage and urban life in medieval Ireland’
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Lecture by Carlo Tedeschi on Medieval Graffiti
13 October 2016 from 17:15 to 19:00 In the lecture series of the Utrecht Centre for Medieval Studies (UCMS), Prof. dr.Carlo Tedeschi (‘Gabriele d’Annunzio’ University, Italy) will give a lecture on “Medieval Graffiti: A Neglected Historical Source“, followed by a short response by Dr Elisa Pallottini (Department of History and Art History). Graffiti are writings…
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Call for papers – Tempo (Journal) New Perspectives in Celtic Studies
Organisers: Adriene Baron Tacla (UFF) & Elva Johnston (UCD) Deadline for submission: 18 de setembro de 2017 Publication date: December 2018 Title: New Perspectives in Celtic Studies In the last twenty years, since McCone and Simms (1996) and Hale and Payton (2000), there have been large advances in Celtic Studies – be it in Linguistics, Comparative Literature,…
Medieval Penitential Literature 