Multidisciplinary Saint Bridget: In Honor of Syon Abbey’s Six-Hundredth Anniversary
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Hagiography Society; Syon Abbey Society
Organizer Name
Laura Saetveit Miles
Organizer Affiliation
Univ. i Bergen
Presider Name
Catherine Annette Grisé
Presider Affiliation
McMaster Univ.
Paper Title 1
A Siennese in Syon: Reading Catherine of Siena with Saint Bridget
Presenter 1 Name
Jennifer N. Brown
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Marymount Manhattan College
Paper Title 2
Between Women: Uneasy Alliances at Syon Abbey
Presenter 2 Name
Alexandra Verini
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Univ. of California-Los Angeles
Paper Title 3
In the Herb Gardens of Oure Ladye: The Great Responsories of Matins in Bridgettine Sisters' Liturgy of Hours
Presenter 3 Name
Hilkka-Liisa Vuori
Presenter 3 Affiliation
Sibelius Academy
Paper Title 4
Saint Bridget's Way: Pilgrimage, Revelations, and the Madonna in Medieval Scandinavia
Presenter 4 Name
Alexandra Fried
Presenter 4 Affiliation
Göteborgs Univ.
Start Date
15-5-2015 1:30 PM
Session Location
Bernhard 209
Description
This year, the Syon Abbey Society and the Hagiography Society are teaming up to offer a multidisciplinary panel devoted to Saint Birgitta of Sweden (c. 1303-1373), or Saint Bridget as she was known in England. Bridget became famous during her lifetime for her divine visions, her campaigns to bring the papacy back to Rome, her political activism, and her foundation of the Order of St. Saviour (or the Bridgettine Order as it is often called). The only British Bridgettine house, Syon Abbey, was founded in 1415 and flourished alongside the growing devotional cult surrounding Bridget and her texts in England. Syon Abbey is now recognized as one of the most vibrant literary and cultural monastic centers of late medieval England, and this panel will be one of several events in the US and UK to mark the sexcentenary of its foundation.
This session features papers on the literary, liturgical, musical, and artistic conditions of Bridget’s legacy and Syon Abbey.
Laura Miles
Multidisciplinary Saint Bridget: In Honor of Syon Abbey’s Six-Hundredth Anniversary
Bernhard 209
This year, the Syon Abbey Society and the Hagiography Society are teaming up to offer a multidisciplinary panel devoted to Saint Birgitta of Sweden (c. 1303-1373), or Saint Bridget as she was known in England. Bridget became famous during her lifetime for her divine visions, her campaigns to bring the papacy back to Rome, her political activism, and her foundation of the Order of St. Saviour (or the Bridgettine Order as it is often called). The only British Bridgettine house, Syon Abbey, was founded in 1415 and flourished alongside the growing devotional cult surrounding Bridget and her texts in England. Syon Abbey is now recognized as one of the most vibrant literary and cultural monastic centers of late medieval England, and this panel will be one of several events in the US and UK to mark the sexcentenary of its foundation.
This session features papers on the literary, liturgical, musical, and artistic conditions of Bridget’s legacy and Syon Abbey.
Laura Miles