IMC 2018: Sessions

Session 1027: Place and Memory: The St Thomas Way Project and Medieval Pilgrimage Today

Wednesday 4 July 2018, 09.00-10.30

Sponsor:	Centre for Medieval & Renaissance Culture, University of Southampton
Organiser:	Catherine A. M. Clarke, Faculty of Humanities, University of Southampton
Moderator/Chair:	Marianne O'Doherty, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds
Paper 1027-a	Walking into Memory: The Progress of the St Thomas Way (Language: English) Chloë McKenzie, Department of History, University of Southampton Index terms: Hagiography, Medievalism and Antiquarianism, Religious Life, Technology
Paper 1027-b	Re-Thinking Place and Time: Folded Temporalities and the St Thomas Way (Language: English) Catherine A. M. Clarke, Faculty of Humanities, University of Southampton Index terms: Geography and Settlement Studies, Local History, Medievalism and Antiquarianism, Technology
Paper 1027-c	Archives as Commemoration / Pilgrimage as Interpretation: Hereford Cathedral, the St Thomas Way Project, and Cantilupe 2020 (Language: English) Bethany J. Hamblen, Library & Archives, Hereford Cathedral Index terms: Archives and Sources, Ecclesiastical History, Hagiography, Medievalism and Antiquarianism
Paper 1027-d	Changing Roles of Pilgrimage: Retreating, Remembering, Re-Enacting (Language: English) Jonathan Wooding, School of Literature, Art & Media, University of Sydney Index terms: Lay Piety, Medievalism and Antiquarianism, Religious Life
Abstract	This session celebrates the launch of The St Thomas Way: a new AHRC-funded visitor route from Swansea to Hereford. Inspired by a real pilgrimage made in 1290 (the 'hanged man' William Cragh together with the Marcher Lord and Lady of Gower), the route invites visitors on a journey through the rich heritage of the medieval March of Wales to the tomb of St Thomas de Cantilupe in Hereford Cathedral. The session will reflect on the practical and theoretical challenges and opportunities involved in overlaying a medieval pilgrimage with a modern visitor experience, opening up questions about the complex relationships between place, time, and memory. The papers will offer new critical approaches to pilgrimage, medieval and modern; place and temporalities; public engagement and commemoration; and practice-led research in medieval studies.