Dear medieval-religion list members,
Sherry Reames, President of the Hagiography Society, has kindly prepared this
message on behalf us both. Apart from the fact that she and I have vested
interests (i.e. our reputations and our shirts :-> ) in wanting you to attend, we
also are convinced that it will be an intellectually stimulating symposium,
combined with a relaxing sojourn spent in the rolling rural Somerset hills of
England.
Please do come! If you're going to Leeds, for example, you can simply come a week
earlier and spend the time with us.
George
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Hagiography Society Symposium
S A N C T I T Y A N D R I T U A L
Ammerdown Conference Centre
near Radstock and Downside Abbey (south-west of Bath), U.K.
6 - 10 July 1998
The symposium -- which is residential, meaning that all participants
should normally be staying at the conference centre -- will begin on Monday
afternoon, 6 July 1998, and end the late morning of Friday 10 July.
Besides the scheduled speakers, we can accommodate about 20 additional
participants. Preference will be given to those who can attend the entire
symposium. To reserve a place, contact George Ferzoco as soon as possible
(University of Leicester, School of Modern Languages, Leicester LE1 7RH U.K.; tel
+44 (0)116 252 2654; fax +44 (0)116 252 3633; e-mail [log in to unmask]), and
confirm it by sending a cheque for the conference fee to Sherry Reames at the
address below.
SCHEDULED SPEAKERS AND TOPICS
Janos Bak (Central European U, Budapest), "Transfer of sanctity in political
ritual"
Anna Benvenuti (U di Firenze), "Pratiche paraliturgiche e cerimonie liturgiche
del ciclo natalizio"
Vincent Corrigan (Bowling Green State U), "Services for St James at Compostela,
Paris, and Arras"
Miriam Gill (Courtauld Inst), "St. Erasmus: image and private ritual"
Michael Goodich (U Haifa), "Miracles and ceremonies of cultic confirmation in the
13th and 14th centuries"
Paul Hayward (Jesus College, Oxford), "Royal inauguration rituals in Anglo-Latin
hagiography"
Thomas Head (Washington U, St Louis > Hunter College, CUNY), "Ritual space,
material culture, and saintly patronage: toward a cultural ecology of the cult of
relics"
Anne-Marie Helvetius (U du Littoral, Boulogne-sur-Mer), "Le rituel des inventions
de reliques en Gaul du Nord"
Jacqueline Jenkins (U Calgary), "Ritual and performance in the `Vita Beate
Katarine' (MS. Longleat 55)"
Graham Jones (U Leicester), "Hagiography and ritual in the adoption and
commemoration of John the Baptist as titular of medieval rural churches"
Michel Kaplan (U de Paris I), "L'ensevelissement des saints: rituel de creation
des reliques et sanctification Byzance d'apres les sources hagiographiques"
Anna Kouznetsova (Central European U), "Rituals for defeating paganism in
missionary vitae"
Christian Kroetzl (U Tampere), "How to choose a saint: selection, lot-drawing and
invocation according to late medieval miracle collections"
Wendy Larson (Boston U), "Embroidered vitae in their ritual setting"
Umberto Longo (U di Roma "Tor Vergata"), "Il ruolo dell'abate Odilone di Mercoeur
nell'istituzione della celebrazione del giorno dei defunti a Cluny"
Anneke Mulder-Bakker (U Groningen), "The liturgy and rituals of the formal
enclosure of recluses"
Patrick Nugent (Earlham College), "Ritual illness and ritual healing in medieval
miracle stories"
Sherry Reames (U Wisconsin), "Stephen Langton and the translation of Thomas
Becket"
Sam Riches (U Leicester), "Ritual in civic saint cults: the `Riding of St
George' in late medieval England"
Jane Schulenburg (U Wisconsin), "Gender, sacred space and the cult of relics, ca.
500-1200"
Kay Slocum (Capital U), "Thomas's Tuesdays: ritual and ceremony at Canterbury"
Laura Smoller (U Arkansas), "Canonization inquest as hagiographical ritual: the
inquest into the sanctity of Vincent Ferrer, Brittany, 1453-54"
The program will also include excursions to Downside Abbey, Wells
Cathedral and Glastonbury Abbey and a festive conference dinner at the Talbot Inn
in Mells.
Ammerdown Conference Centre is located near Radstock, southwest of Bath.
For participants coming by train, shuttle buses will run from Bath Spa train
station to the conference centre twice on Monday afternoon, at 2 and 5, and back
to Bath Spa station after the symposium closes on Friday. Participants coming by
car or other means of transport should notify George Ferzoco and ask for
directions.
The conference fee -- which includes all coach and excursion fees, all
meals [except drinks], housing, and registration -- is 195 British pounds
(reduced to 150 British pounds for students and jobseekers) or the equivalent
amount in your own country's currency, based on the current exchange rate. This
fee is payable by cheque to the order of "Hagiography Society" and should be sent
to: Sherry Reames, Dept of English, U Wisconsin, 600 North Park St, Madison, WI
53706, USA.
(Please do not send a cheque in UK pounds unless it is drawn on a British bank.
Sherry's bank can accept cheques in any country's currency, provided that they
are drawn on a bank in that same country.)
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George Ferzoco tel ++ 44 (0)116 252 2654
Director of Studies for Italian fax ++ 44 (0)116 252 3633
University of Leicester e-mail [log in to unmask]
School of Modern Languages
LEICESTER LE1 7RH UNITED KINGDOM
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