Liturgy, Literature & History: Oswald of Northumbria and the Cult of Saints in the High Middle Ages

Liturgy, Literature & History: Oswald of Northumbria and the Cult of Saints in the High Middle Ages

Organizer
Johanna Dale
Venue
Online
Funded by
The British Academy
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Location
London
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United Kingdom
From - Until
05.08.2021 - 06.08.2021
Deadline
22.07.2021
By
Johanna Dale, UCL

An international interdisciplinary online medieval studies conference

Liturgy, Literature & History: Oswald of Northumbria and the Cult of Saints in the High Middle Ages

The centrality of the cult of saints to medieval Christianity is reflected in surviving liturgical, historical, literary and administrative texts, material culture and architecture. Too often, however, disciplinary boundaries mean these sources are studied in isolation from one another. A multi-disciplinary approach is needed if we are to properly understand both the mechanisms by which saints’ cults spread and also the manner in which veneration of the saints drove other forms of political, cultural and social expression. This conference, focussed on the cult of Oswald of Northumbria in the high Middle Ages, brings together historians, literary scholars, musicologists and art historians to explore the cult of saints through texts, objects, space, sound and the senses and particularly interrogates the influence of the liturgy on society. The conference was intended to include a performance of Oswald’s feast-day liturgy drawn from Peterborough manuscripts and enacted in the space for which it was originally envisioned, we hope this recreation will be possible on Oswald’s feast day in 2022.

For full details and for how to register please visit oswaldusrex.co.uk/conference

Programm

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

Contact (announcement)

history.oswald@ucl.ac.uk

https://oswaldusrex.co.uk/conference/
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