An Interdisciplinary Online Conference at the University of Nottingham.
Wednesdays, 9th, 16th and 23rd March 2022
Call for Papers
We invite papers which explore representations of spirits and spirituality in the medieval period from c. 600-1400 in Britain and Ireland, including, but not limited to, the following suggestions:
The influence of Eastern and / or Western patristics
Representations of spirits and demons
Approaches to spirituality
How spirits and spirituality are represented in medieval texts, artefacts, art and material culture
It brings me great joy to welcome you to the start of a new academic year at Oxford! I’m honoured to be taking over the role of OMS Communications Officer from Caroline Batten, the wonderful scribe and would-be-medieval-poet of last year’s Monday emails. I’m looking forward to bringing you all the latest Oxford Medieval news and keeping you up to date on the many exciting seminars and events that lie in store for us this year. If you would like your events to be promoted by OMS or have pitches for posts for the OMS blog, please don’t hesitate to get in touch at luisa.ostacchini@ell.ox.ac.uk.
As Michaelmas approaches, so too does the arrival of this term’s Medieval Booklet. If you are running a seminar, event or reading group that you wish to appear in the booklet, please email me your submission before October 1st.
Term may not yet have begun, but we already have some events to bring to your attention:
Save the Date! Our first big event of the year is the Oxford Medieval Studies Roadshow, Tuesday 12th October, 5-7 pm, where you can promote your research seminars, conferences, projects and workshops. More details to follow shortly…
Seminar on the History of Domestic Violence. The 5th Seminar in History of Domestic Violence and Abuse series, organized by Juliana Dresvina & Anu Lahtinen, University of Oxford & University of Helsinki, will take place on Friday 1st October, 10am.
We’re looking forward to seeing you all back in Oxford in October, and to tentatively resuming in-person events. For now, I leave you with a little snippet of medieval wisdom, to whet your appetites for the term ahead:
Ælc man, ðe wisdom lufað, bið gesælig [‘Everyone who loves wisdom is blessed’, Ælfric, preface to the Grammar]
A vacationing serpent is shocked by the arrival of the term’s first Medieval Matters email: Merton College, MS 249, f. 7r
The 5th Seminar in History of Domestic Violence and Abuse series, organized by Juliana Dresvina & Anu Lahtinen, University of Oxford & University of Helsinki.
October 1, 2021 at 10am GMT
Elena Chepel, ‘How to complain about violence if you are a woman: language and gender in Ptolemaic papyrus petitions’
Despina Iosif, ‘Populus Exasperatus: The violent Graeco-Roman crowd’
Annette Volfing, ‘Beating the bride into Shape: Domestic violence within bridal mysticism’
Juliana Dresvina ‘The Uncomfortable Liber Confortatorius: Grooming in a monastery?’
Since January 2021, Lahtinen & Dresvina have been organizing online seminars on the long history of domestic violence and abuse. For more information about the following events, please follow the updates via https://tinyurl.com/histviolence
