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Miracles in the Localities (Chair: Helen Birkett)
Rebecca Pinner (University of East Anglia)
St Edmund of East Anglia: ‘martir, mayde and kynge’, and midwife?
Linsey Hunter (University of St Andrews)
Famous by association: the miraculous interactions of Saint Cuthbert and Robert of Newminster in Vita and Acta
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Medieval Miracles (Chair: Matthew Mesley)
Simon Yarrow (University of Birmingham)
Multivalent miracles: a diffuse and ephemeral phenomenon in twelfth-century England?
Anne E Bailey (University of Oxford)
Peter Brown and Victor Turner revisited: an alternative anthropological approach to twelfth-century miracle narratives
Miracles and Medical History (Chair: Christopher Bonfield)
Irina Metzler (University of Swansea)
Healing miracles in decline: how social realities affect religious perception
Louise Wilson (University of Cambridge)
Conceptions of the miraculous: natural philosophy and medical knowledge in thirteenth-century miracula
Iona McCleery (University of Leeds)
‘Christ mightier than Galen’: medicine and healing miracles in late medieval Portugal
Miracles and the Formation of Religious Identities (Chair: Rebecca Pinner)
Kati Ihnat (Queen Mary, University of London)
Marian liturgies and Marian miracles in the Benedictine tradition of post-Conquest England
Fiona Kao (University of Cambridge)
‘Her vnspotted & vndefiled virginitie’ and her ‘willing death and martirdome’: Foxe’s virgin martyrs
Guest Speaker (Chair: Matthew Mesley) Elisabeth van Houts (University of Cambridge)
Miracles, marriage and gender: some explorative thoughts on medieval miracula
Sponsored by:
Medium Æevum,
Royal Historical Society,
University of Cambridge Faculty of History Graduate Conference Fund. ![]() |