Literacy, Memory and the Conversion of the Isles
November 2-4, University College Dublin
Podcasts
Session 1: The Introduction of Literacy
- Dr Anthony Harvey, 'Insular languages and literacy in the mid-first millennium: new questions to some old answers' (MP3 or Ogg Vorbis)
- Professor Anne-Sofie Gräslund, 'Runestones as evidence of the conversion of Scandinavia' (MP3 or Ogg Vorbis)
Session 2: Literacy, Memory and the Book
- Dr Mark Stansbury, 'Tales from the script: the coming of Latin writing to Ireland' (MP3 or Ogg Vorbis)
- Dr Alan Thacker, 'Remembering the saints: the role of the written word' (MP3 or Ogg Vorbis)
Session 3: The Use of Symbols and Images
- Professor Nancy Edwards, 'Chi-rhos, crosses and Pictish symbols: inscribed stones and stone sculpture in early medieval Wales and Scotland' (MP3 or Ogg Vorbis)
- Dr Lise Gjedssø Bertelsen, 'The power of the images of DR 42, the larger Jelling picture runestone' (MP3 or Ogg Vorbis)
Session 4: The Power of the Law
- Professor Liam Breatnach, 'The church in early Irish law' (MP3 or Ogg Vorbis)
- Dr Helen Foxhall Forbes, 'Searching for conversion in the Anglo-Saxon laws' (MP3 or Ogg Vorbis)
Session 5: Memory and Landscape
- Conor Newman, 'Conversion through the prism of art' (MP3 or Ogg Vorbis)
- Dr Alex Woolf, 'Plebs: the parish before the parish in the sub-Roman West' (MP3 or Ogg Vorbis)
Session 6: The Role of the Saint
- Dr Siân Grønlie, 'Not quite saints' lives: hagiography and early accounts of Iceland's conversion' (MP3 or Ogg Vorbis)
- Dr Barry Lewis, 'The saints in narratives of conversion' (MP3 or Ogg Vorbis)
Keynote Lecture
- Dr Elva Johnston, 'Reassessing literacy in early medieval Ireland' (MP3 or Ogg Vorbis)
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