In July, we had the pleasure of attending Leeds International Medieval Congress.
Denis and Christiania organised two sessions on Reconfiguring the Apophatic Tradition in England, in which Christiania presented on ‘The Apophatic Company of St Catherine of Siena’, and Olena gave a talk on ‘Refining the Will: A Reconsideration of Contemplation in The Cloud of Unknowing‘.
We were joined by Lorenzo Zaggia, a doctoral student on exchange in Lausanne from the University of Padua, who presented on ‘The Devil’s Contemplatives’: Deformed Contemplation in The Cloud of Unknowing‘ as part of the MTN’s session Crises in Mystical Texts: Mysticism in Crisis, II.