The International Anchoritic Society, in conjunction with MEMO at Swansea University, is pleased to announce its 5th International Anchoritic Conference.
Medieval anchorites in their communities
Much of the work undertaken in the field of medieval anchoritism, particularly within an English context, has concentrated on the vocation’s role within the history of Christian spirituality, its function as a locus of (gendered) sacred space and its extensive ideological cultural work. Indeed, in the hundred years since Rotha Mary Clay’s foundational 1914 study of English anchoritism, The Hermits and Anchorites of England (1914), only sporadic attention has been given to the English anchorite as part of a community – whether social, intellectual, spiritual or religious – and as part of a widespread ‘virtual’ community of other anchorites and religious or ‘semi-religious’ figures spread across England and beyond. This conference, therefore, will examine the figure of the ‘communal anchorite’ and the central role often played by her/him within local and (inter)national political contexts, and within the arenas of church ideology, critique and reform.
Programme :
Tuesday, April 22
11.0-1.00 : Coffee and Registration
1.0-2.00 : Lunch
2.0-2.10 : Welcome and Introduction – Liz Herbert McAvoy (Swansea University)
2.10-4.00 : Postgraduate Workshop – Working with Anchoritic Manuscripts : Bella Millett (University of Southampton) and Eddie Jones (University of Exeter)
4.0-4.30: Tea/Coffee
4.30-6.00: Session 1: Some Postgraduate Positions on Anchoritic Texts
Chair: Liz Herbert McAvoy
Joseph Leake (University of Connecicut) – The Vernacularity of the leoue sustren: Language and Audience in Ancrene Wisse.
Krista A. Murchison (University of Ottawa) – The Role of Confession in the Transmission of the Ancrene Wisse.
Sophie A. Sawicka-Sykes (University of East Anglia) – Celestial Conscription: Writing the Anchorite into the Heavenly Ranks.
6.00 : Wine reception and Book-Launch: E. A. Jones, Speculum Inclusorum/Myrour of Recluses: A Parallel-Text Edition (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2013). Event generously sponsored by the University of Wales Press/University of Liverpool Press
7.00 : Dinner
8.15-9.15 (Gregynog Bar): Dramatic performance: An Audience with Shurl, written and performed by Sue Bevan
Wednesday, April 23
8.0: Breakfast
9.00-10.30: Session 2: Inventing Textual Communities
Chair: Michelle Sauer (University of North Dakota)
Catherine Innes-Parker (Prince Edward Island) – Anchoritic Textual Communities and the Wooing Group Prayers.
Ayoush Lazikani (University of Oxford) – Emotional Communities in On Lofsong of ure Louerde.
Dorothy Kim (Vassar College) – Ancrene Wisse and the Egerton Hours
10.30-11.00: Tea/Coffee
11.00-1.00: Session 3A: Community and Reform
Chair: Juliana Dresvina (King’s College, London)
Clare Dowding (King’s College, London) – ‘Item receyvyd of ye Anker’: the Relationship between a Parish and its Anchorites as seen through the Churchwarden’s Accounts.
James Plumtree (Central European University) – ‘Tempting the People, as Jeroboam did Israel’: The Curious Incident of the False Hermit in Fisherton Anger at Mass.
Justin Byron Davies (University of Surrey) – ‘Holy church shalle be shaked in sorrow and anguish and tribulation in this worlde as men shaketh a cloth in the wind’: Reformist Currents in Julian of Norwich’s Revelation of Divine Love.
11.00-1.00: Session 3B: Friendships and Beliefs
Chair: Christiania Whitehead (University of Warwick)
Kathryn Maude (King’s College, London) – ‘She fled from the uproar of the world’: The Contested Recluse Status of Eve of Wilton.
Michelle M. Sauer (University of North Dakota) – ‘Each one of you has al that she needs from one friend’: Ideas of Friendship in Anchoritic Literature.
Cate Gunn (Independent scholar) – The Anchoress of Colne Priory: A Case Study.
1.0-2.30: Lunch
2.30-4.00: Session 4A: Anchorites: the Psychological and the Material
Chair: Dorothy Kim (Vassar College)
Juliana Dresvina (King’s College, London) – A Case for a Psycho-history of Medieval Solitaries.
Julia Bourke (University of Cambridge) – Anchoresses, Emotion and Religious Practice: A Neurohistorical Approach.
Godelinde Perk (Umeå University) – Was Julian’s Nightmare a Māre? Julian of Norwich and Folk Belief.
2.30-4.00: Session 4B: Rhetoric and Devotion
Chair: Denis Renevey (University of Lausanne)
Fumiko Yoshikawa (Hiroshima Shudo University) – Julian of Norwich and Medieval Rhetorical Arts of Preaching
Margaret Healy-Varley (Providence College) – Wounds shall be worships: Anselm in Julian of Norwich’s Revelation of Love.
Diana Denissen (University of Lausanne) – ‘I gave it to you entirely, nailed and stretched out on my cross, in this holy order’: Anchoritic Rhetoric in A Talkyng of the Love of God.
4.0-4.30: Tea/Coffee
4.30-6.00: Keynote Lecture – Chair: Liz Herbert McAvoy (Swansea University)
Eddie Jones (University of Exeter) – ‘O sely ankir’.
6.00 Cash bar
7.00 Dinner
Thursday, April 24
8.0 : Breakfast
9.00-10.30: Session 6: Visionary and Social Communities
Chair: Catherine Innes-Parker (University of Prince Edward Island)
Naoë Kukita Yoshikawa (Shizuoka University) – Mechtild of Hackeborn and her Community in Later Medieval England.
Clarck Drieshen (University of Leeds) – English Recluses and Communal Interactions: the Translation of Late Medieval Revelatory Devotional Literature into Social Reality.
10.30-11.00: Tea/Coffee
11.00-12.45: Keynote Lectures – Chair: Eddie Jones (University of Exeter)
Diane Watt (University of Surrey) – Eve of Wilton in her Communities
Tom Licence (University of East Anglia) – Anchorites as Occult Practitioners in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries
12.45-1.00: Concluding remarks
Informations pratiques :
The 5th International Anchoritic Society Conference
Gregynog Hall, Newtown, Powys, Wales
April 22-24, 2014
All those interested in attending this workshop should indicate attendance on the registration form, available on the conference website.
Source de l’information : Swansea University
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