45th Symposium
Douai Abbey
Thursday 11 April 2024
The 45 th English Benedictine Symposium will be held at Douai Abbey, Upper
Woolhampton, Reading RG7 5TQ, tel. 0118-9715-300 by kind permission of the Abbot and
Community, A booking form is attached.
Directions will be found on the Douai Abbey website. The nearest rail station is
Midgham, which usually involves a change at Reading. The abbey is a fifteen-minute walk
up the hill from the station, but lifts are likely to be available. If you wish to attend, please
inform Abbot Geoffrey Scott, Douai Abbey, Upper Woolhampton, Reading RG7
5TQ, geoffrey@douaiabbey.org.uk by the 11 March 2024, giving details on the form
attached of overnight stays and meals.
Programme
7.45 Conventual Mass
9.30-10.45 Introduction and Lecture 1
The Dissolution of the Monasteries: The written record
Dr Harriet Lyon (Fellow of Christ’s College, Cambridge. Author of
‘Memory and the Dissolution of the Monasteries in Early Modern
England’, Cambridge, 2022)
10.45-11.15 Break
11.15-12.15 Lecture 2
The Dissolution of the Monasteries: The material and local legacies, Dr Harriet Lyon
13.00 Lunch
13.45-14.45 Lecture 3, Material History: Finding Benedictine Nuns through Monastic Spaces and Objects
Dr Claire Walker (University of Adelaide)
15.00-16.00 Lecture 4, Catholicism in Scarisbrick. The Middle Ages to the early 20th century”
Mary Ormsby (researcher of the Scarisbrick mission) & Abbot Geofffrey Scott (the Scarisbrick Jesuit library)
16.15 Tea, announcements, and departure
Please fill in the attached document:
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