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X-WR-CALNAME:Strife and the Saintly Body: Frideswide’s Legacy at Christ C
 hurch\, Oxford
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DESCRIPTION:Saint Frideswide\, the patron saint of Oxford\, has dominated O
 xford's sacred spaces since her eighth-century death. Dr. Heckman's talk w
 ill trace the long history of the bodies (mostly dead but some living) tha
 t were drawn into complex relationships with Frideswide's burial site in C
 hrist Church Cathedral\, Oxford. From the sixteenth-century Protestant wom
 an whose burial at Christ Church generated controversy to the seventeenth-
 century convict corpses dissected at the college's nearby Anatomy School\,
  Frideswide's remains attracted other bodies\, as local residents both ins
 ide and outside the college continually refashioned their relationship wit
 h this holy space.\n\nDr. Christina Heckman is professor of English at Aug
 usta University\, where she studies early English literature and culture. 
 Her most recent book\, Work and Its Representations in Early Medieval Sain
 ts' Lives\, considers the role the manual labor played in the early mediev
 al world as an everyday activity as well as a rewarding activity\; it was 
 published by Boydell and Brewer in 2025. Today's talk comes out of her cur
 rent book project\, which examples how the presence of early medieval sain
 ts' relics contributes to the transformation of those places over time\, c
 onsidering the ways that post-medieval local communities organized themsel
 ves around (or against) these holy remains.\n\nSponsored by the English De
 partment and UGA at Oxford Program.
GEO:33.952988;-83.372051
LOCATION:Park Hall\, Room 265
SUMMARY:Strife and the Saintly Body: Frideswide’s Legacy at Christ Church
 \, Oxford
URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.uga.edu/event/strife-and-the-saintly-body-fr
 ideswides-legacy-at-christ-church-oxford
CATEGORIES:Lectures and Discussions
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