Save the date!

An invitation to chat with Dr. Eleanor Parker, historian & medievalist

“We make Idols of our concepts, but Wisdom is born of wonder.”

St. Gregory the Great

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Welcome, friends. I’m Kristin: a Pacific Northwest artist, mom, & farmer offering support for seasonal, local, liturgical living. Together, we’ll explore the agrarian heritage of the Church calendar and ideas of sacred time & sacred place.

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March is just around the bend, and although I have a lot of exciting things to share with you when we enter that new month…I just had to give you a sneak-peek of something special!

Each month, I like to put special emphasis on a particular holiday of the Church calendar. As a way of deepening that even further, I’m bringing other voices into the conversation…

…and, for March, our friend Dr. Eleanor Parker - lecturer in Medieval English Literature at Brasenose College, Oxford - will be returning to discuss the role of St. Gregory the Great in the Anglo-Saxon world, as well as his feast day in the early Medieval church!

You may remember Eleanor from our book club selection last fall: we read Winters in the World, and she so graciously joined us for our closing book club meeting.

Eleanor has a real knack for illuminating the depths of the liturgical year, offering so many layers of context & meaning that are otherwise lost to the sands of time. She’s approachable and ever-curious, too: a true teacher!

Since St. Gregory the Great (whose feast is our March focus) was responsible for the mission that converted the Anglo-Saxons to Christianity, his feast was incredibly popular in the early Medieval church…but its popularity has waned over time, and his feast date has also been changed in calendar revisions.

Getting Eleanor’s perspective on this saint and his feast - so crucial in the Anglo-Saxon faith context - will be SO helpful as we steep ourselves in this holiday in March!

Eleanor Parker is Lecturer in Medieval English Literature at Brasenose College, Oxford. She has a doctorate from the University of Oxford and is a specialist in the literature of medieval England and Scandinavia. She writes regularly for publications including History Today and BBC History Magazine, and is the author of Dragon Lords: The History and Legends of Viking England, Conquered: The Last Children of Anglo-Saxon England, and Winters in the World: A Journey Through the Anglo-Saxon Year. (via Reaktion Books)

SAVE THE DATE:

» Saturday, March 8 at 11 am PST

A Zoom link will be sent out prior to our meeting. This discussion is open to all paid HF members!

I hope you can join Eleanor & I for a great chat!! We’re excited to hear your thoughts, questions, and reflections.

I’ll be launching more March goodies later…but in the meantime, I wanted to make sure you had this gem of an invitation on your calendar.

Pax et bonum,
Kristin

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