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Hull: Lecture on Sisterly love and professorial prowess

  • Philip Crispin

Professor Veronica O'Mara, a leading academic in the field of nun's literacies and preaching in the medieval period, will deliver her inaugural professorial lecture at the University of Hull on Monday 27th March. Everyone is invited to attend.

'The Education of a Medievalist: English Godly Literature Unbound'

In this lecture Professor O'Mara will explore her on-going education as a medievalist in the light of developments in the discipline of Medieval English Studies. She will concentrate especially on the inter-related areas of preaching, the relationship between manuscript and print, and female literacy, which have been the main focus of her published research.

She has chosen here to refer to 'godly literature', a term principally used in early modern studies, rather than 'medieval religious literature', a phrase that has an unfortunate tendency to be seen by the modern critic --and student -- almost as a term of abuse. At the root of this lecture there will be three overlapping fields of enquiry that have informed all of Professor O'Mara's research: a firm belief that period boundaries can be artificial and stultifying; the need for a nuanced understanding of what is meant by 'literature' in a medieval context; and a conviction that we cannot be isolationist in studying English literature and history but must do so in a European context.

In her interpretation of a selection of textual case studies that in different ways transcend historical boundaries she will ponder on some of the questions and issues that have most resonance for her, and, as she sees it, for the study of godly literature from England in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries as seen against the background of European cultural, historical, and literary developments.

Allam Lecture Theatre, 6pm, Monday 27th March

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