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Please join us for a workshop discussing the central role of archives, artefacts and relics in life-writing and in understanding and documenting past earthly lives and afterlives.

British Catholic Material Culture is a British Art Network research group. It considers the art and material culture of British Roman Catholics in the British Isles and in exile during the ‘Penal period’, i.e. from the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 1530s to the restoration of the Hierarchy in England in 1850. The group aims to investigate how such collections can be understood and shared more widely, and their benefits to audiences today. 

For more information or to join the group, please email CatholicMaterialCultureUK@gmail.com Twitter / X: @RCMaterialUK

We are delighted to be working in partnership with Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê’s Centre for Early Modern Exchanges on this final event of 2023-24.

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Programme

1300:  Welcome and housekeeping, Professor Alison Shell, Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê
1305:  Introduction to the British Catholic Material Culture research group and this afternoon’s workshop, Amina Wright, research lead
Part 1: Afterlives and memory
1310 Catholic Material Culture and Life Writing 1580-1700, Claire Marsland, Curator, Ushaw College
1330 Chambers of Imagery: The Materiality of Jesuit Meditation, Prof Alison Shell, Department of English, Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê
1350 Q&A
1400 Break
Part 2: Relics and Hagiography
1410 Relics and reliquaries in 17th-century Ireland: lives and afterlives, Dr Raghnall Ó Floinn, Royal Irish Academy
1430 Relics Revisited: The Benedictine Chapel of the Rosary (c.1650 - 1829), Dr Simon Johnson, Director of Heritage, Downside Abbey
1500 Break
1510 The Monuments and Memorials of Philip and Anne Howard, the Earl and Countess of Arundel, Dr Earle Havens, Johns Hopkins University
1530 Q&A
1535 Discussion
1550 Next steps for the research group
1555 Thanks and end

Image credit: John Lawson: Stained-Glass Portrait of St Philip and Anne Howard, Earl & Countess of Arundel. Arundel Cathedral, 1986. Courtesy of Earle Havens