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Kurt Villads  Jensen
  • Hoem Moellevej 14 A
    DK-4100 Ringsted, Denmark
  • +45 60112202
This day-conference will encourage a discussion over the role of the bishop during the middle ages, engaging medievalists from different periods and geographical locations in dialogue with each other, as the various functions of a... more
This day-conference will encourage a discussion over the role of the bishop during the middle ages, engaging medievalists from different periods and geographical locations in dialogue with each other, as the various functions of a medieval bishop ‘on the ground’, rather than in theory, will be examined in their different aspect with relation to a particular place and time.

We shall discuss bishops and/as canonists, bishops and pastoral obligations, bishops and monasteries for the early medieval period; for the central middle ages, bishops and/in the crusades, and papal legates, and bad behaviour; and for the end of the middle ages, bishops and/in the court, and/in armies and, finally, the last three bishops of Uppsala.

We are pleased to note that we have, as speakers, one Angle, one Celt, one Celtiberian, one Dane, three (!) Finns, one Geat (Western), one Jute, and one from the lands of the Rus.

The Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature is pleased to announce that it will award up to ten travel and accommodation bursaries for graduate students, based in the UK and elsewhere in Europe, who wish to attend the conference.  If you wish to apply, please email the Executive Officer (ssmll@history.ox.ac.uk) as soon as possible.

The Conference will take place on 3rd December 2015 at the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquity, Stockholm Sweden. Find more details and register here: http://mediumaevum.modhist.ox.ac.uk/dayconference
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