Draft Programme (All times BST)
Thursday 5th August
14:30 Welcome
14:45 Panel 1
Professor Tessa Webber (Cambridge), ‘Public reading and the celebration of the feast of St Oswald at Peterborough: the knowns and unknowns’
Dr Nicholas Karn (Southampton), ‘Towards a new edition of Hugh Candidus’s Peterborough chronicle’
Chair: Professor Elisabeth van Houts (Cambridge)
15:30 Short break
15:45 Panel 2
Professor David Hiley (Regensburg), ‘Old and new in the liturgical chants for the feast of St Oswald’
Dr Johanna Dale (UCL), ‘King Oswald’s Arm: Liturgy and Material Culture at Peterborough Abbey’
Chair: Dr Helen Gittos (Oxford)
16:30: break
17:00 Panel 3
Professor Julian Luxford (St Andrews), ‘Images and Relics of Oswald in Later Medieval England’
Professor Nicholas Vincent (UEA), ‘Oswald and England’s Kings, 1066-1307’.
Chair: Dr Philippa Hoskin (Cambridge)
18:00 Informal social gathering
Friday 6th August
14:00 Welcome
14:05 Panel 4
Dr Benjamin Müsegades (Heidelberg), ‘An Englishman abroad. The cult of St Oswald in the medieval Empire’
Dr Diarmuid O’Riain (Munich), ‘The Lives of Oswald and other English saints in the twelfth-century Magnum Legendarium Austriacum’
Chair: Professor Björn Weiler (Aberystwyth)
14:50 Short break
15:00 Panel 5
Dr Henry Parkes (Nottingham), ‘Oswald’s Office in the Bodenseeraum’
Dr Gerhard Lutz (Cleveland Museum), ‘Oswald and Hildesheim Reconsidered’
Chair: Dr Jonathan Lyon (Chicago)
15:45 Break
16:15 Panel 6
Dr Sean Dunnahoe (California State), ‘The transmission of Oswald’s liturgy into Scandinavia’
Professor Brigitte Meijns (KU Leuven), ‘The Abbey of Bergues-Saint-Winnoc and the Cult of St. Oswald in Eleventh-Century Flanders’
Chair: Dr Erik Niblaeus (Cambridge)
17:00 Short break
17:15 Panel 7
Dr Sarah Bowden (King’s College London), ‘St Oswald’s raven: sanctity, sovereignty and animality in the Munich Oswald‘
Dr Francesca Brooks (York), ‘Falling into precipice of mind and monastery’: Lynette Roberts (1909-95) and the Lives of the Cambro-British Saints’
Chair: Dr Emily Ward (UCL)
18:00 Concluding remarks
Organised with support from
The British Academy, Peterborough Cathedral & UCL