The Sorrowful Virgin: Medieval and Early Modern Devotion
Monday 24 March 2025, 9am - 6.45pm
MGA Lecture Room, St Hugh’s College
The registration deadline has now passed. Please contact anna.wilmore@st-hughs.ox.ac.uk if you are interested in attending online.
We are pleased to announce 'The Sorrowful Virgin: Medieval and Early Modern Devotion’, an interdisciplinary workshop taking place on 24th March 2025 at St Hugh’s College, association with the Centre for Early Modern Studies and with Oxford Medieval Studies, sponsored by the Oxford Research Centre for the Humanities (TORCH). We look forward to exploring different manifestations of devotions of the Virgin’s Sorrows, both through papers from scholars across history, literature, and history of art, as well as through sessions focused on performance and manuscripts. Our keynote speaker is Prof Lesley Twomey (Northumbria) at 5 pm with a talk entitled: 'The Sorrows of the Virgin Mary at the Foot of the Cross in vernacular Vitae Christi in Medieval France, England and Spain’.
For further details please visit the event page.
The Seven Sorrows of the Virgin from The Prayer Book of Cardinal Albrecht of Brandenburg, approx 1525-35, Simon Benning, Getty Museum, Ms. Ludwig IX 19 (83.ML.115), fol. 251v
