Online seminar, 25 November 2026
5pm, MS Teams

All are most welcome!

‘Visiting the Saints for a Child: Gender, Emotions, and Miraculous Fertility Cures in Medieval Europe’.

Catherine Rider is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Exeter. She works on histories of magic, medicine, popular religion and marriage in medieval Europe, and she has just finished writing a book on Understanding Infertility in Medieval Europe.

Faith and Fertility: Women, Childbearing, and Pilgrimage to St Winefride’s Well’.

Kathryn Hurlock is Professor of Religious and Military History at Manchester Metropolitan University, and an expert in histories of Wales, and of pilgrimage. She has published widely on both for academic and trade presses. Her latest book, Performing Pilgrimage to the Lourdes of Wales: St Winefride’s Well and Its Pilgrims, was published by the University of Wales Press in 2026.

Please book your place via the online booking form: Locating Loss 25 November 2026 booking form