Note: all times are British Summer Time (GMT+1). All sessions and the keynote will be broadcast live.
Day 1 – 26 June
9:30–9:50 – Welcome and introduction (Bowland Theatre)
9:50–11:00 – Keynote lecture (Bowland Theatre)
John Arnold: ‘Southern France and Pastoral Reform: Heretical Margin or Orthodox Centre?’
Chair: Peter Biller
11–11:30 – Coffee break (Treehouse)
11:30–13:00 – Session 1: Disability and the Church (Bowland Theatre)
Chair: Laura Atkinson
1a – Hegemonic Hagiography? Narrative, Rhetoric and Agency in Medieval Canonisation Depositions.
Ed van der Molen
1b – Disability and the Icelandic Church in The Saga of Bishop Lárentíus
Ryder C. Patzuk-Russell and Yoav Tirosh
1c – Taking Care of their Own? Institutional Support for Poor Clerics in the Late Middle Ages
Hannah Wood
13:00–14:00 – Lunch (Treehouse)
14:00–15:30 – Session 2: Marginalising the Other (Bowland Theatre)
Chair: Emmie Rose Price-Goodfellow
2a – Public opinion and the marginalisation of ‘heretics’ in southern France 1145–1209
Joshua Rice
2b – Kyiv monks about ‘them’: an image of the ‘others’ in medieval Rus
Andrii Kepsha
2c – The Catholic Church and the representations of the Muslims in the Kingdom of Castile during the thirteenth century
David De Pablo
15:30–16:00 – Coffee break (Treehouse)
16:00–17:30 – Session 3: Space, Travel and Marginality (Online, screened in Bowland Theatre)
Chair: Tim Wingard
3a – Racialized Sacred Spaces: Narratives of Exclusion and Inclusion in Northern European Churches
Lorenz Hindrichsen
3b – Dionysius Fabricius in Livonia
Anastasija Ropa
3c – The Healing Journey from the Margins to the Centre In Twelfth-Century Miracle Narratives
Anne Bailey
17:30–18:30 – HRC drinks reception (TBC)
19:00 – Conference dinner (TBC)
Day 2 – 27 June
9:30–11:00 – Session 4: Monasticism and Marginalised Genders (Bowland Theatre)
Chair: Emma Nuding
4a – Enkindling Faith and Burning it Down: Endorsing Spiritual Struggles in Christina Mirabilis and the Nuns of Watton
Scott Harrower
4b – What Constitutes the ‘Outside’?: “Lesbian” Affection at the Heart of 12th and 13th century Spiritual Writing
Hannah Victoria Johnson
4c – An Example for Nuns or Monks? Joseph of Schönau and Transgender Possibilities in the Cloister
Emmie Rose Price-Goodfellow
11–11:30 – Coffee break (Treehouse)
11:30–13:00 – Session 5: Sexuality on the Margins (Bowland Theatre)
Chair: Hannah Victoria Johnson
5a – Sexuality in Crisis: Anxieties of Sodomy and Plague in the Fourteenth-Century English Church
Tim Wingard
5b – Divorce and Disability in Byzantium: Male impotence before ecclesiastical courts in 13th century Epirus
Romain Goudjil
5c – The Maternal Dilemma
Tracey Davison
13:00–14:00 – Lunch (Treehouse)
14:00–15:30 – Session 6: Global Christianities (Online, screened in Bowland Theatre)
Chair: Emmie Rose Price-Goodfellow
6a – Christian Minorities in Medieval Asia: Social Networks and Local Powers
Valentina A. Grasso
6b – Churches in Kochi: Symbols of Assimilation of Keralite community in the Christian fold
Lubna Irfan
6c – Establishment of Church at Mughal Agra: Socio-cultural exchange in a Heterogeneous Society
Mohammad Abdullah Raza
15:30–16:00 – Coffee break (Treehouse)
16:00–17:30 – Session 7: Agency of the Marginalised (Bowland Theatre)
Chair: Lawrence Duggan
7a – The Jewish Community of York in the Early Thirteenth Century: From Margins to City Centre.
John Jenkins and Louise Hampson
7b – Sculpting the Margins in Danish and English Parish Churches: Looking Across the North Sea
Line M. Bonde and Meg Bernstein
7c – Climate of Care: Reconsidering Eaves-Drip Burial through Affective and Domestic Archaeology
Kate Bajorek
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