{"id":596,"date":"2019-02-25T12:06:04","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T12:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/?p=596"},"modified":"2019-02-25T12:06:04","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T12:06:04","slug":"the-2019-anselm-lecture-by-prof-julia-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/2019\/02\/25\/the-2019-anselm-lecture-by-prof-julia-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2019 Anselm Lecture by Prof Julia Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">The Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies and the School of History invite you to this year\u2019s Anselm Lecture, by <b>Professor Julia Smith<\/b><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: medium\">, Chichele Professor of Medieval History at All Souls College, University of Oxford. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Entitled, <strong>The Remains of the Saints; The Evidence of Early Medieval Relic Collections\u00a0<\/strong>the lecture takes place\u00a0at<strong> 6pm\u00a0Thursday 21st March<\/strong>, <strong>2019<\/strong> in <strong>Grimond Building, Lecture Theatre 2<\/strong> (GLT2).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><i><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri;font-size: medium\">All are welcome to the lecture and a wine reception afterwards.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri;font-size: medium\">Abstract of the lecture<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri;font-size: medium\">This paper explores both the textual and material evidence for the nature of relics in Merovingian and Carolingian Europe.\u00a0 Using the surviving relic assemblages at Saint Maurice d\u2019Agaune and Sens in particular, it charts a gradual shift from associative to representational objects, and points out the slowly increasing attention to body part relics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>About the speaker<\/strong><br \/>\nJulia Smith is Chichele Professor of Medieval History at All Souls College, University of Oxford.\u00a0\u00a0Her current research addresses the materiality of Christian experience in the Middle Ages.\u00a0She is\u00a0concerned with \u2018things which do things\u2019, and use an ethnographic approach to exploring how, why and in what social contexts a wide range of material substances acquired a sacred aura, serving as mediators between humans and the divinity. The result will be a book on the emergence and development of the cult of relics from the 4th to the 11th centuries. This research draws heavily\u00a0on approaches and methodologies derived from\u00a0her earlier publications on the history of women and gender in the early Middle Ages (a field in which\u00a0she retains a strong interest) but also has a strong cross-cultural dimension. Beyond that,\u00a0Prof Smith is\u00a0interested in developing interdisciplinary approaches to studying the abundant material remains of late antique and early medieval relic-objects which\u00a0she has discovered while undertaking field work in the treasuries of some of Europe\u2019s oldest churches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies and the School of History invite you to this year\u2019s Anselm Lecture, by Professor Julia Smith, Chichele &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/2019\/02\/25\/the-2019-anselm-lecture-by-prof-julia-smith\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34306,"featured_media":597,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34306"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":598,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions\/598"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}