Guthlac of Crowland: Celebrating 1300 Years
Saint Guthlac of Crowland (Old English: Gūðlāc) (673–714) was a Christian saint from Lincolnshire in England. He was particularly venerated in the Fens in Eastern England.
“Guthlac of Crowland: Celebrating 1300 Years” is an international conference, which will take place in the Senate House of the University of London from the 10-11 April 2014. Papers, dealing with the saint’s life and cult, will be on a range of topics, for example the legend, Guthlac and Crowland, the Exeter Book poems, offices and music, aspects of the Guthlac Roll, Guthlac and Benedictinism.
List of presentations at the conference:
Guthlac and His Life
Alan Thacker (IHR): Guthlac and his Life: Felix shapes the Saint
Andy Orchard (Pembroke College, Oxford): Lege feliciter; scribe felicius: the Originality of the Vita S. Guthlaci
Catherine Clarke (University of Southampton): On Beauty: Words, Pleasure and Value in some Guthlac Texts.
Morn Capper (University of Leicester): Guthlac and the Britons
Tom Lynch (St John‘s College, Cambridge): Ritual in Felix’s Life of Guthlac
Sarah Leeser (Keble College, Oxford): The early cult of St Guthlac: dynastic and territorial considerations
The Landscape of Guthlac’s World
Kelly Kilpatrick (University of Nottingham): The place-names and landscapes in the Vita Sancti Guthlaci
Britten Brooks (Lincoln College, Oxford): The literal landscape: Felix’s use of authorizing allusion and lexical echo in his construction of the English Fenlands
Liturgy, Music and the Later Cult
Henry Parkes (Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge): Two musical portraits of St Guthlac
Tom Licence (University of East Anglia): Guthlac after the Norman Conquest
The Manuscripts
Stewart Brookes (King’s College London): Capricious cursiveness: the Vita S. Guthlaci fragment in London, British Library, MS Royal 4 A. xiv
Chris Voth (Newnham College, Cambridge): A saint for all seasons: manuscripts of the Vita S. Guthlaci and the Benedictine Reform
Timothy Bolton (Cardiff University): Guthlac, Waltheof, Crowland and Douai Bibliothèque municipale, ms 852
The Vernacular Literature: Guthlac A
Richard Hawtree (University College Cork): Swallowing an English saint ‘for our times’: Wisdom, Guthlac A, and the meditative impulse in the Exeter Book
Stefany Wragg (St Cross College, Oxford): A saint for all seasons? The cult of Guthlac and Guthlac A
Crowland, Hereford and the Cult
Meredith Bacola (Durham University): Vacuas in auras recessit? Reconsidering the social relevance of embedded heroic material in the Guthlac narrative
Michael Chisholm (St Catharine’s College, Cambridge): Croyland Abbey, a tenth-century foundation
Julia Barrow (Leeds University): St Guthlac’s Minster in Hereford: Domesday and beyond
Medieval Crowland
Avril Lumley Prior (Independent scholar): Pegeland Revisited: Guthlac and Pega on Croyland’s Sacred Isle
Cristian Ispir (King’s College London ): History writing in the cloister: The Crowland Chronicle
Elizabeth Danbury (IES/UCL): Richard II and Guthlac
Round Table: Guthlac’s Enduring Appeal
Chaired by Éamonn Ó Carragáin (University College Cork) with contributions from Graham Jones (St John’s College, Oxford), Kent Petitt (Saint Louis University) and Joseph Grossi (University of Victoria)
Guthlac of Crowland: Celebrating 1300 Years
Senate House, University of London
10.04.2014 – 11.04.2014
Conference organisers: jane.roberts@sas.ac.uk and alan.thacker@sas.ac.uk.
General enquiries: Jon Millington, Events Officer, Institute of English Studies, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU; tel +44 (0) 207 664 4859; Email IESEvents@sas.ac.uk.