5th International Anchoritic Society Conference
22-24 April 2014
Gregynog Hall, Newton, Powys (Wales)
Abstracts of up to 500 words should be sent to Dr Liz Herbert McAvoy at anchorites@swan.ac.uk by Friday, August 30th 2013.
Call for Papers for the 5th International Anchoritic Society conference, which will be held in Gregynog Hall, Newtown, Powys (Wales) on 22-24 April 2014. The theme of the conference is ‘Anchorites in their Communities’ and the event will include three keynote lectures (by Tom Licence [East Anglia]; Diane Watt [Surrey]; and Eddie Jones [Exeter]), a postgraduate/postdoctoral manuscript workshop (led by Bella Millett [Southampton] and Eddie Jones [Exeter]) and a roundtable on the hundred-year legacy of Mary Rotha Clay’s work.
Offers of 20-minute papers are therefore being sought on any aspect of medieval anchorites in their communities including (but not restricted to):
• Spiritual circles
• Communities of discourse
• Anchoritic/lay interaction
• Anchorites and church reform
• Networks of patronage
• Networks of anchorites
• Anchorite case studies
• Anchoritic friendship groups
• Book ownership/ borrowing/ lending/ circulation
• Communities of texts: ‘anchoritic’ miscellanies/ textual travelling companions
• Textual translation, circulation and mouvance
• Non-insular influence
• Gendered communities
Abstracts of up to 500 words should be sent to Dr Liz Herbert McAvoy at anchorites@swan.ac.uk by Friday, August 30th 2013.
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