Then it was time for the wine before Patricia Skinner’s brilliant talk on facial disfigurement in the medieval period. The talk felt like it went well and when it came to questions I was treated very kindly by the audience members.Everyone seemed quite enthusiastic about sermonizing and the enigma-wrapped-in-a-mystery that is Ephraim Pagitt. Then it was time to start the conference with my heavily annotated script.I was the second speaker in a two day event, and I was feeling the pressure especially after an audience member told me that the conference had been advertised on the radio. On the return back to the campus we passed an altogether more modern piece of architectural design, a man’s face sticking out of a concrete wall.įinally, before the conference began we had a nice little wander around the campus to try and shake off the growing sense of nervousness. The crypt under Christchurch had a few cool things in and amongst itself, including a mummified rat and a cat from the old organ’s pipes. Both places were pretty impressive, and were an interesting mix of architectures. After I had spent some time with this almost 400 year old artefact we left the library and set off towards Dublin Castle and Christchurch Cathedral. There I got to see the very printed sermon I was speaking on later that day safe to say I got a bit photo happy. After we had signed in as “temporary readers” we were sent down some subterranean passages through the bowels of the university and we surfaced in the Early Printed Books reading room in the old library. To kill some time we found our bearing in the centre of the city and then went to the library on Trinity campus. I abused the free breakfast at the hotel on all three mornings, taking more than my fair share of bacon and coffee. Waking up on the morning of my talk I didn’t have the same nerves as last time. Last week Francisca and I jumped on a plane to Dublin so that I could speak at a conference entitled Outing Outsiders at Trinity College. Strangely enough I stopped posting around the same time that the whirlwind MA started, go figure. Firstly, it has been a good few months since I last wrote anything on here.
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