Welcome to the project website of ‘Re-configuring the Apophatic Tradition in Late Medieval England’, a 4-year Swiss National Science Foundation-funded team research project (April 2022-March 2026), hosted by the Department of English, at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland.
Apophasis: the stripping away of all that can be known, spoken, or visualised about God, and an entry into a place of darkness and cognitive obscurity …
You are warmly invited to explore our site to learn more about our project, publications and forthcoming conference, and to read our news and blogs.
Professor Denis Renevey (principal investigator)
Dr Christiania Whitehead (senior researcher)
Olena Danylovych (doctoral researcher)
Re-configuring the Apophatic Tradition in Late Medieval England Volume

Thank you to all of our wonderful participants for an unforgettable conference!
To follow up on the generative exchanges that took place over the few days, we plan to publish a volume of selected essays developed from papers given at the conference.
Please see here for the submission guidelines.


