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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Supported by:

The Leverhulme Trust