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Religion  ‡  Belief  ‡  Superstition

c. 400 – c. 1550

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        

School of Arts, Histories and Cultures
 University of Manchester
8-9 June 2009
Venue: The Manchester Museum, Oxford Road (Kanaris Theatre)

 

 

 How did religion, belief and superstition function in medieval cultures?
This postgraduate conference seeks to explore the boundaries and intersections
of these categories, examining the diverse and often
ambiguous ways in which
religion,
belief
and superstition
impacted on the lives of pre-modern peoples.
Moreover, what methodological presuppositions do twenty-first
century medieval scholars bring to this area of study?
What do we stand to learn
from each
other?
 
 
Keynote Speaker: Dr Anthony Bale (Birkbeck)
 
'The Jew's Hand and the Virgin's Bier: Touch, Shock, and the Devotional Grotesque'

 

        

                                                                        Getting Published

 
School of Arts, Histories and Cultures
University of Manchester
10 June 2009
Venue: The John Rylands University Library, Deansgate

 

Speakers at the conference will be invited to participate in ‘Getting Published’, an informative and practical training programme designed to enable doctoral students, working in medieval studies, to produce and present research ready for publishing. The varied and interactive workshop will be run by experienced academics and editors directly involved in publishing. 
 
The sessions will include:
  • Book Reviews (Dr Cordelia Warr, Reviews Editor for Art History)
  • Edited collections (Professor Gale Owen-Crocker, Professor of Anglo-Saxon Culture at the University of Manchester)
  • Journals (Dr David Matthews, Editor for Studies in the Age of Chaucer)
  •  Monographs (Dr Anke Bernau, Editor for the Medieval Series, Manchester University Press)
  • Editorial Perspectives (Matthew Frost, Head of Editorial at Manchester University Press)
 
For more information contact Chris Monk at C.J.Monk@student.manchester.ac.uk 

 

The conference and workshop are generously funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and SAGE (Skills Awareness for Graduate Education, School of Arts, Histories and Cultures, University of Manchester). 
The venues have been kindly made availbable by the Manchester Museum and the John Ryland University Library, Deansgate.
 
 
       
 
 

 

Reproduction of image courtesy of Pam Walker (copyright 2008):  Wooden angel, All Saints Church, Tilbrook, Cambridgeshire, late 15th century

 

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