International conference
This conference explores later medieval devotion to saints from the north of England. It examines the ways in which Bede’s lauded northern saints (Cuthbert, Hilda, Aebbe, Oswald, John of Beverley, and others), and early post-conquest saints in the same northern tradition (Godric of Finchale, Robert of Knaresborough, Aelred of Rievaulx, William of York, etc.), were remembered and venerated between 1300 and 1500. Pursuing an interdisciplinary approach, it will take account of new textual, architectural, artistic and liturgical productions, pilgrimage cultures and shrine economies, the relations of these saints to their monastic custodians and local communities, and their utilisation to serve regional and national agendas.
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