We will circulate the readings and Zoom link in advance of the meetings. For those who would like to attend, we ask that you read over the sources in advance of the meetings and come prepared to discuss. After a short introduction by the speakers, we will dedicate our meeting times to discussion.

If you are not already affiliated and would like to attend these sessions, please email Laura Moncion (laura.moncion@philosophie.uni-tuebingen.de) or Alicia Smith

(alicia.smith@uib.no).

Programme :

Friday March 6 – Saints on a Roll (or Two) 
Alicia Smith: Reclusive Saints as Models on the Throckmorton Layman’s Prayer Roll
Laura Gisseleire: The Mortuary Roll of Lucy of Hedingham

Friday March 27 – Saints in Images and Murals
Marianne Kupin-Lisbin: The Miraculous St Mary of Olovo
Maia Man-Abramiuc: The Transylvanian Mural of St Margaret

Friday April 24 – Representations of Saints in Prayers
Jenny Bledsoe: Prayers to Quiricus and Julitta in the Medieval Birth Girdle Tradition
Iliana Kandzha: A Prayer to St Apollonia from De Speghel der Sammiticheyt

Friday May 15 – Saints in Unlikely Places 
Fawaz Abdul Salam: The Sultan as a Saintly Figure in Early Ottoman Poetry
Heather Blurton: William of Norwich Keystone in Girona, Spain

Friday June 26 – Saints in Annals and Anti-Hagiographies
Hope Doherty-Harrison: Extracts from Biographies of Judas
Steffen Hope: Annalistic Hagiography? The Case of Margareta of Roskilde

Friday July 31 – Saints in Teaching Texts and Epigraphs
Mary Channen Caldwell: St Nicholas in the Musical Hand
Kshitij Jain: Monastic Figures and Sacred Places in Jain Ritual Texts

All meetings will take place on Zoom, at 4pm-5:30pm CET / 3pm-4:30pm GMT / 10am-11:30am EST unless otherwise indicated.