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This Church Stabbed Itself!

Published on 13 Feb 2023, written by Diana Myers. A few days after the Enclosure met to discuss our January book club pick, The Corner That Held Them by Sylvia Townsend Warner (1948), I came across the following image online: “This Church Stabbed Itself”https://yesterdaysprint.tumblr.com/post/708085996965789696/the-washington-post-may-19-1912 Warner’s novel is a long meandering look at the rise and …

A Response to Misleading Lady: The Enclosures of Belle da Costa Greene by Carolyn Funk, 30 April 2021

I’ve been to the Morgan Library once. To consult a manuscript that the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley had with him in the boat when he drowned. As some of you may know, Shelley died in a shipwreck in the Bay of Spezia, off Italy’s Western coast on 8 July 1822. According to his biographer Richard Holmes, back in England the news of his death was greeted with the announcement ‘Shelley, the writer of some infidel poetry has been drowned; now he knows whether there is a God or no.’ I have not been able to verify this quote but I cite it for what it says about Shelley’s reputation at the time of his passing. He was not an unknown poet, but he was a poet most often mentioned in attacks on his morals – atheist, proto-feminist, proto-socialist, who once claimed that – and this is a verified quote – the ‘invidious distinction of human kind […] into two sexes, is a remnant of savage barbarism’.

Penelope’s Odyssey, Sappho’s Tale: Studying Women’s Songs from Ancient to Modern Greece with Andromache Karanika

21.Apr..2021 12:00 PM in Pacific Time

This talk will take us on a journey of the tradition of folk songs and poetry from antiquity to contemporary examples while also discussing the experience of a Greek classicist working on oral tradition. With a methodology of “excavating under the words” it argues that the women’s song and poetry tradition and also lived experienced shaped much of the ancient poetry. With examples from Homer, the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, Sappho, and ballads and folk songs from contemporary Greece we will seek to uncover women’s voices and experiences. Special emphasis will be given to the theme of “NOSTOS,” leaving one’s homeland, constructions of desire for one’s former space, returning or not, and more.

1st-3rd Sep.: Spirituality, Liturgy, and Women in Late Medieval Female Convents

Synopsis. (GMT+2) September 1st14:00 Welcome and Introduction 15:00 Latin Learning, the Ordering of Knowledge and LiturgyEva Schlotheuber, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf 16:30 Collective Performances of Compassion. Liturgy, Imagination and Emotion in Late Medieval Passion SermonsPietro Delcorno, Radboud University Nijmegen Liturgical Cycle and Visionary Sermon in the work of Juana de la CruzPablo Acosta-García, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf September 2nd09:00 …

Anchoress, a film by Chris Newby

Anchoress is a 1993 British drama film directed by Chris Newby. The screenplay is partly based on accounts of an historical female anchorite, Christine Carpenter, who was walled into her anchorhold in a village church in Shere, Surrey, in southern England, in 1329. The story revolves around the girl’s mystical visions of the Virgin Mary, the local …