Jan Dienstbier presents PRAYTICIPATE in Toruń Toruń · 22–24 January 2026 Jan Dienstbier disseminated information about the project at Textus et Pictura VI: Medieval Manuscript in Sacred Use, held in Toruń between 22nd and 24th of January 2026. The Textus et Pictura conference is a cyclical forum that brings together researchers of medieval manuscript heritage…
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A report on the PRAYTICIPATE Summer Training School “The Story of Prayer: Giving GREAT Academic Presentations” University of St Andrews and the Burrell Collection · 18–20 June 2025 · Louise Keitsch How can researchers give an audience a way into specialised work on the past? At PRAYTICIPATE’s first training school, participants explored this question through…
A report on the Working Group 3 online video workshop Online workshop · 15 May 2026 · Dominika Ruszkiewicz & Lieke Smits Immersive prayer practices of the past – the focus of Prayticipate Working Group 3: Immersive Realities of Prayer – can be studied through the texts, images, and objects that have survived throughout the…
The COST Actions invite proposals for (a) shared session(s) during the conference “Recovering Book Histories: MSS and Printed Books from 1350-1550” – EARLY BOOK SOCIETY MEETING POITIERS, FRANCE, June 7–11, 2027 (see https://earlybooksociety.org/conferences-2/) Shared Book Histories: Mobility, Exchange, Interaction and Co-habitation before 1550 A late medieval or early modern book is never a solitary object:…
What does it mean to pray in time — to mark time, inhabit time, resist time, or even step beyond it? At this year’s International Medieval Congress in Leeds, PRAYTICIPATE will explore precisely these questions through a rich programme of sessions and one roundtable devoted to prayer, temporality, media, and devotional practice. Bringing together scholars…