Cross Project Activities

Sancta Crux/Halig Rod: The Cross in Anglo-Saxon England
Project Activities

Project Launch: July 2000

The three collaborators presented papers on 7 July 2000 in Oxford as part of the Ritual and Belief: Rites of the Anglo-Saxon Church conference in a session titled "The Sign of the Cross" chaired by Simon Keynes (Cambridge University).

Sarah Larratt Keefer, "Devotions to the Cross in Anglo-Saxon England: the Sign and the Signing"
Karen Louise Jolly, "Cross-Referencing Liturgy and Charms: The Sign of the Cross as Ritual Protection"
Catherine E. Karkov, "The Sign of the Cross: Poetic Performance and Liturgical Practice."
Oxford Abstracts

Summer 2001

36th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 3-6, 2001. Jolly presented a paper on "The Graphic Cross: Marking Textual Space" in a session on "Time and Memory in Anglo-Saxon England" organized by Karkov.
International Medieval Congress, Leeds, England, July 9-12, 2001. Karkov presenteda paper on the portrait of the Winchester donation of a cross with Cnut and Emma from the New Minster Liber Vitae.
Cross and Culture in Anglo-Saxon England: A project-sponsored conference in Durham, England, August 3-4, 2001.
Panel session at the meeting of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists (ISAS): "Performing the Cross in Anglo-Saxon Culture." Helsinki, Finland, August 6-11, 2001.

Summer 2002

The collaborators submitted session proposals for the May International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo and for the July Medieval Congress in Leeds.
Seminar on The Place of the Cross in Anglo-Saxon England in Manchester, England, 5-7 July 2002, in collaboration with the Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies.

Summer 2003

Third project-sponsored seminar in Winchester planned for July 2003.
The collaborators will submit sessions to the May International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, for the July Medieval Congress in Leeds, and the August International Society of Anglo-Saxonists meeting in Arizona.

Website Development: Metaconferencing

During and between these dedicated conferences and sessions, the project will endeavor to extend the dialogue via this website, offering abstracts, questions, and papers for online discussion.
This website will eventually become an archive of materials on the cross in Anglo-Saxon England.

Publications

The project collaborators envision a three-volume set of interdisciplinary articles derived in part from the seminars and conference sessions.

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updated 8/26/01