Leeds IMC 2013
Converting the Isles Sessions
Tuesday, 2nd July 2013
All sessions will be held in the Parkinson Building: Room B.22
I. Session 505 Reconsidering Conversion
9.00-10:30
Moderator: Dr Erik Niblaeus (Cambridge)
- Paper 1: Dr Roy Flechner (UCD),Bede, Boniface, and the 8th-Century Memory of the Gregorian Mission
- Paper 2: Patrick Gleeson (Cork), Converting Kingship in Early Medieval Ireland: Re-defining Practices, Ideologies and Identities
- Paper 3: Edwin Hustwit (Bangor), Praesentem Israelem? Conversion, Christianity, and the Britons in Late Antiquity
II. Session 605 Converting Traditions
11.15-12:45
Moderator: Dr Roy Flechner (UCD)
- Paper 1: Dr Alexandra Bergholm (Cork), ‘Come to me, loving Mary, that I may keen with you’: Pagan Past and Christian Present in the 8th Century Blathmac Poems
- Paper 2: Jessica Storoschuk (UCD), Converting Childhood: Shifting Perceptions of Childhood in Early Irish and Anglo-Saxon Ecclesiastical Texts
- Paper 3: Dr Brittany Schorn (Cambridge), Converting Traditional Old Norse Poetics
III. Session 705 Narrating Conversion
14:15-15:45
Moderator: Dr Brittany Schorn (Cambridge)
- Paper 1: Dr Máire Ní Mhaonaigh (Cambridge), Pagan Kings and Cursing Clerics: Depicting Conversion in Medieval Ireland
- Paper 2: Maria Teresa Ramandi (Cambridge), Converting Medieval Iceland: Early Christian Settlers, Missionaries and Saints
- Paper 3: Razvan Stanciu (Cambridge), Togail Troí: A Christian Author and His Paganism
IV. Session 805 Medieval Irish Hagiography as a Source
16:30-18.00
Moderator: Dr Máire Ní Mhaonaigh (Cambridge)
- Paper 1: Sarah Waidler (Cambridge), Hagiographical Perceptions and Narratives of Conversion in Ireland during the Central Medieval Period
- Paper 2: Helen Oxenham (Cambridge), Representations of Male and Female Conversion in the Earliest Irish Saints’ Lives
- Paper 3: Julianne Pigott (Cambridge), The Contrasting Agency of the Female Saint in Conversion Vignettes: Íte in Apposition to Monenna
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