Author: Elaine Pereira Farrell

It is with great excitement that we announce the launch of the website of the Monastic Ireland: Landscape and Settlement, a project funded by the Irish Research Council. It was launched yesterday (4th December 2014) by Heather Humphreys, T.D., Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht at the Discovery Programme. It is the aim of the Monastic…

Originally posted on FMRSI: Call for papers: Late Antique Hagiography as Literature Colloquium at the University of Edinburgh, 20th-21st May 2015 Texts about ‘holy’ women and men grew to be a defining feature of the culture of Late Antiquity. There is currently an increasing interest among scholars from different disciplines (history, theology, languages, and literature)…

The next colloquium of the A. G. van Hamel Foundation for Celtic Studies is taking place on the 27 November 2014. Natalia Petrovskaia will speak about ‘Medieval Welsh perception of the Orient’, at 19pm and Elaine Pereira Farrell will present on ‘Lay penance in early medieval Ireland’ at 8pm. It will take place at Drift 23, Utrecht,…

The 5th International Medieval Meeting Lleida takes place June 25-26, 2015. It’s organised by Grup de Recerca Consolidat en Estudis Medievals “Espai, Poder i Cultura” (Universitat de Lleida). The participants can present sessions and individual papers on different aspects of research in the history of the Middle Ages or sessions dedicated to the promotion and…

International Conference at the University of Leuven, 2-4 December 2015 Call for Papers To submit a proposal, please send an abstract of approximately 300 words (along with your name, academic affiliation and contact information) to lectio@kuleuven.be by January 15, 2015. Notification of acceptance will be given by the end of March 2015. The publication of selected papers…

Originally posted on FMRSI: Deadline: 30 January 2015 Translating the Past: Appropriating the Medieval and Early Modern Worlds Borderlines XIX – Translating the Past: Appropriating the Medieval and Early Modern Worlds – which will be held in Queen’s University Belfast from 10-12 April 2015. Proposals for both papers and panels are welcomed from postgraduate and…

Monastic Europe: Landscape & Settlement The Irish Research Council-funded Monastic Ireland: Landscape and Settlement research team are happy to announce that it is hosting a three-day conference in August 2015. Conference themes will include: The topography of medieval monastic settlement (1100-1700), in both urban and rural environments The impact of Church reforms on the physical…

The Utrecht Centre for Medieval Studies invites for an Colloquium with Prof. dr. Philippe Buc (Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung). He will speak about Theology and the shaping of violence in the West Attention to some basic axioms of Christian theology enables the historian to account for some (not all) traits specific to violence in the West, not only…

The call for papers for the Autumn Symposium and AGM of the Agricultural History Society of Ireland. The theme this year is: ‘Cattle: a long-term mainstay of Irish farming and economy’. The keynote speaker will be Dr Edel Bhreathnach (Director, Discovery Programme) and the lecture title is ‘From the Táin to CAP: the importance of cattle in Ireland’.…

Professor Ralph O’Connor (University of Aberdeen) will give a lecture to the Early Irish and Celtic Studies research seminar, entitled ‘Historia​, fabula, and everything in between: saga-writing and historical purpose in medieval Ireland and Iceland’. The lecture will take place at 5pm in the Foras Feasa seminar room, Iontas Building, North Campus, Maynooth University. Professor O’Connor’s lecture will…