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New project book out Open Access!
We are delighted to share the news that Liturgy, Literature, and History. Oswald of Northumbria and the Cult of Saints in the Middle Ages has been published by the British Academy. The book, which uses Oswald of Northumbria as a case study to understand the dynamics of saintly cults in the Middle Ages, is edited…
New short YouTube film in the “Glimpses of German History” series!
Glimpses of German History is a series of short films made by the German History Society, which uses objects to shed light on German history. In this short film, Dr Johanna Dale discusses the reliquary of St Oswald from Hildesheim Cathedral. This unique reliquary claims to contain Oswald’s head (spoiler: it almost certainly does not!)…
Landscapes of Sanctity in Sankt Oswald
There has been a religious building dedicated to St Oswald in this small valley in the Nock Mountains since some time before 1197, when a chapel is first mentioned in the context of the nearby monastery at Millstatt coming into possession of lands in the area. In the following century the chapel became a church…
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