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)

Reconfiguring the Apophatic Tradition in Late Medieval England Conference (10–12 September 2025)

Registration for the conference will open in March 2025.

Information about accommodation is now available here.

Our keynote speakers are:

  • Marleen Cré, Université Catholique de Louvain
  • Ryan Perry, University of Kent
  • Nicholas Watson, Harvard University
  • Katherine Zieman, Université de Poitiers

The conference programme will include an optional excursion on Saturday 13th of September, provisionally offering a boat trip along the Lac Léman, a visit to Chillon castle, a swim in the lake, a lakeside walk to Vevey, and concluding with a wine-tasting in the UNESCO world heritage site, the Lavaux vineyard terraces.

For more details, see the Conference page.

To view the Call for Papers, click here.

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The featured image is René Magritte’s Les idées claires, 1958.