I am delighted to be able to share the following CfP for the International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, July 2023. Below you will find a copy of the CfP as a jpg image. A text version of the CfP can be found below that too. Text version: Searching for Health and the Holy: Traces [...]
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REGISTRATION OPEN! The Maladies, Miracles and Medicine of the Middle Ages, III. ‘Patients, Prayers, and Pilgrims’ (Friday 1 April, 2022)
I am delighted to announce that registration is now open for The Maladies, Miracles and Medicine of the Middle Ages, III ‘Patients, Prayers and Pilgrims’. The conference will be run in a hybrid format online and in-person at the University of Reading (UK). Please note that we have limited in-person attendance available, and this will [...]
CALL FOR PAPERS! ‘The Maladies, Miracles and Medicine of the Middle Ages, III: ‘Patients, Prayers and Pilgrims’
I'm excited to announce that the third quadrennial 'Maladies, Miracles and Medicine' (MM&M) conference will be taking place on Friday 1 April 2022. The Call for papers (CFP) can be found below with further details about the conference theme and the submission of abstracts. The image is presented as a .jpg, however a .pdf version [...]
Finding Evidence of Holy Healing: The Case of St Robert of Knaresborough
My research focuses particularly on the experiences of pilgrims who sought out miraculous cures from saint cults in high-medieval England. A key resource for this, therefore, are the hagiographical sources which include reports of the posthumous miracles (collected together in a subgenre called miracula) worked by various saints through their shrines. However, these formally written-up [...]
CALL FOR PAPERS. The Maladies, Miracles and Medicine of the Middle Ages, II.
This year marks the fourth anniversary of my first conference 'The Maladies, Miracles and Medicine of the Middle Ages' at the Graudate Centre for Medieval Studies (GCMS). Organising a two-day, international conference was both challenging and a great expereince, and I had always hoped to make the conference the first of a series. Four years [...]
Ruth J. Salter 