Medieval Life Writing: Principles and Practice
Friday 29th June 2018
Harris Manchester College, Oxford
9:30am
Coffee and Registration
10:00am to 11:00am
Session 1
Chair/Respondent:
10:00am
- Institute of Historical Research, London
Life Writing in the Age of Abelard
11:30am to 1:10pm
Session 2
Chair/Respondent:
11:30am
- Oriental Institute, Oxford
Mostly (But Not All) Dead: an overview of Arabic life writing
12:20pm
- Somerville College, Oxford
Mystical Theology in Late Medieval Song. First person voices between liturgy and experience
2:20pm to 4:00pm
Session 3
Chair/Respondent:
2:20pm
- University of Durham
Bartholomew as Flayed Saint: rethinking the question of hagiographic identity
3:10pm
- University of Cambridge
Translation and Transcendence: the first German vernacular life of Charlemagne
4:30pm to 5:20pm
Session 4
Chair/Respondent:
4:30pm
- Paris IV
Chivalrous Biographies in the Fifteenth Century: history, fiction and exemplarity
5:30pm
AGM and 2018 Medium Ævum Annual Lecture
5:45pm
- King's College, London
Writing the Life of Charlemagne
