Online meetings · 2026 · Sara Carreño & Stefan Matter
Throughout 2026, WG1 leaders Sara Carreño and Stefan Matter continued to organise the ongoing online seminar Material Realities of Prayer, held every two months. Each session allows members to present their research lines and projects, and our 2026 presentations offered a cross-section of the group’s work, ranging from palimpsest prayer books and monastic libraries to Franciscan imagery, devotional artefacts and digital tools for the study of liturgical manuscripts.
Presentations
Ágnes Korondi (HUN-REN–NSZL Fragmenta et Codices Research Group, National Széchényi Library, Budapest): Two in One: A Latin Palimpsest Prayer Book for German (?) Nuns in the National Széchényi Library
Elena Paulino Montero (UNED, Madrid): Lay Women, Material Devotion, and the Sacred in Late Medieval Castile
Licia Buttà (Universitat Rovira i Virgili): Contemplation, Liturgy, and Visio Dei in Ms. Douce 313
Ingrid Falque, Elizaveta Falkova and Sarah Borges (UCLouvain): presentation of the research group Essais de terminologie(s). Images, littérature, spiritualité
Małgorzata Krasnodębska-D’Aughton (School of History, University College Cork): Facing St Francis: Images, Space and Liturgy in Irish Franciscan Friaries
Mercedes Pérez Vidal (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid): Meditating and Performing the Passion in Lorvão: Liturgical and Devotional Artefacts in Context
Louise Tjoline Keitsch (University of Freiburg): Scratched, Pierced, Prayed Over. The Devotional Affordances of the So-Called Sketchbook of Michael Wolgemut
Paweł Figurski (Institute of Art, Polish Academy of Sciences): Ritus+: A Digital Tool for the Automated Analysis of Latin Liturgical Manuscripts
Catarina Fernandes Barreira (Institute of Medieval Studies, NOVA University Lisbon): Books and Libraries in the Cloister: Alcobaça and Lorvão