Category: Past Events

After publishing last year ‘Penance in Medieval Europe 600-1200’ by Dr Rob Meens the Cambridge University Press has just published another very interesting book about the penitential literature: ‘The Old English Penitentials and Anglo-Saxon Law’ by Stefan Jurasinski, which is part of Studies in Legal History. This indicates that scholars are re-evaluating the importance of the penitential literature…

The 29th Irish Conference of Medievalists is approaching! It will take place in UCD between the 1-3 July 2015. Registration is open until 30th of July. Our keynote speaker this year will be Dr Rob Meens (University of Utrecht) who will speak about ‘Columbanus and the Practice of Penance in Early Medieval Europe’. This lecture is in…

An introductory course about Irish Medieval History will be offered at the Federal Fluminense University, Niterói, Rio de Janeiro between the 06 and the 09 of April 2015. It will be taught by Dr Elaine Pereira Farrell (U. of Utrecht). The enrolment is free, but places are limited (until 31/03). Registrations should be done at NEREIDA-UFF and certificates…

The Monastic Ireland Project in conjunction with the Royal Society of Antiquaries in Ireland will host two keynote lecture speakers on monasticism in March 2015. Wednesday 11 March 2015 “The Nature of Irish Monasticism ca. 1050”  Dr Edel Bhreathnach (CEO, The Discovery Programme & Co-Investigator, IRC Monastic Ireland Project) Friday 27 March 2015 “Confessions of a Monastic…

The call for papers and panels for the Irish Medievalists Conference is now open! The event will take place at the University College Dublin between 1-3 July 2015. Works about any aspect of the Middle Ages are welcome. The deadline for submissions is April 20th 2015. The committee will review all submissions and inform applicants of their…

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,…