"Meetings with the Psalms and Psalters," Series 2

International scholars partake in a 6-part seminar series devoted to Psalms in the first half of 2024. This series continues from where the 2023 series left off. The format will be a 60-minute lecture followed by a 30-minute discussion.

These events are free and open to all, but registration is required.  Once registered, you will be sent an email with an invitation to the Zoom link for each session.

12:00 Eastern Standard Time (NEW YORK, INDIANAPOLIS)
17:00 Greenwich Mean Time (LONDON, DUBLIN)
18:00 Central European Time  (WARSAW, BRUSSELS)

(Individual session times are subject to change due to daylight savings time. Please check each session and the time conversion as the day approaches)

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Sponsored by the Nanovic Institute for European Studies at the University of Notre Dame, USA; John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland; the Research Group for the Study of Manuscripts (SIGLUM); and the Institute of English Studies at the University of Warsaw, Poland.

Spring 2024 Schedule

January 25, 2024 - "Vernacular Psalters in 12th-Century England"
Jane Toswell (University of Western Ontario, Canada)

February 22, 2024 - "Reading the Psalms in Early Medieval Ireland: The 'Old Irish Treatise on the Psalter'"
Alderik Blom, Prof. Dr.  (Philipps University of Marburg, Germany)

March 21, 2024 - "Translation Strategies in the Wycliffite Psalms"
Elizabeth Solopova (New College, University of Oxford)

April 25, 2024 - "12th- to 14th-Century Vernacular Psalter Translations into Middle English, Anglo-Norman and Middle French"
Kinga Lis (John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland)

May 23, 2024 - "Visual Arts and the Book of Psalms"
Susan Gillingham (Worcester College, University of Oxford)

June 27, 2024 - "Christians, Jews, and an Interlinear Superscription: Use of Rabbinic Commentaries in an Early 13th-Century Psalter in England"
Loraine Enlow (Jewish Theological Seminary, New York City)

Previous Sessions

To view previous sessions from Series 1 of Psalms and Psalters, please visit the YouTube playlist.

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