Seminar Series: The Cult of Saints in the First Millennium

Trinity Term (April – June 2016)

Friday 5.00 – 7.00 pm, Weeks 1, 3, 7

Venue: Radcliffe Humanities Building – Collin Matthews Room (Ground floor)

Convenor: Efthymios Rizos

Week 1 (29 April):

Mark Laynesmith (The Archbishop’s Examination in Theology, Lambeth Palace)

“The Cult of St Alban of Verulamium: Romano-British, Merovingian and Anglo-Saxon devotion, c. 400-800″

Week 3 (13 May):

– No seminar –

 Week 5 (27 May):

Simon Loseby (University of Sheffield)

“Thinking about saints with Gregory of Tours”

Week 7 (10 June):

Robert Wiśniewski (University of Warsaw)

“The burials ad sanctos