On 4 July 2018 the “Cities of Readers” project organised a lively and interesting series of no less than four sessions at the International Medieval Conference in Leeds:
Session I: Shared devotional culture
Anna Dlabačová (Leiden University): Belief in Business: The Role of Commercially Produced Religious Incunabula in a Shared Textual and Devotional Culture
Johanneke Uphoff (University of Groningen): Bequeathing Books: Book Donation and Shared Devotional Culture between Lay and Religious in the Late Medieval Low Countries
Session II: The Performance of Writing
Isabelle Bretthauer (Université de Caen Normandie): The Manuscripts of the “Coutume de Normandie”: Between Legal Uses and Religious Consciousness
Wendy Scase (University of Birmingham): Performing Scribal Identity in Medieval English Devotional Manuscripts
Sabrina Corbellini (University of Groningen): Scripto per me:The Performance of Writing in Late Medieval Italy
Session III: The performance of text
Olivia Robinson (Université de Fribourg): Deguilleville in the Convent: Pilgrimage, Poem and Play-script
Sarah Brazil (University of Geneva): Experiencing comedy in Early English biblical drama
Bart Ramakers (University of Groningen): A Miracle Staged: Performative Didactics in Cornelis Everaert’s Play of Mary’s Chaplet
Session IV: The Performance of Reading: Texts, Objects, Spaces, and Practices
Joanka van der Laan (University of Groningen): Having Christ as a Companion: The Significance of Daily Movement in Middle Dutch Devotional Texts
Sarah Joan Moran (Utrecht University): The Impact of Catholic Reform on Domestic Devotional Art in the Southern Low Countries: Case Studies and Avenues for Research
Margriet Hoogvliet (University of Groningen): Conceptualising the “vita activa” as a Space for Religious Life