"Narrative Time and Mystical Theology
in Late Fifteenth-Century England" by Prof. Laura Saetveit Miles. Prof.
Miles’s talk looks at how Richard Methley, a late-medieval English mystic,
combines liturgic time and present-tense narrative to evoke the experience of
divine union. Prof. Miles is professor of British literature in the Department
of Foreign Languages at the University of Bergen, Norway. She has published on
medieval visionary women, devotional and mystical literature, Syon Abbey, the
Carthusians, and queer and feminist approaches to the Middle Ages. Her monograph
The Virgin Mary’s Book at the Annunciation: Reading, Interpretation, and
Devotion in Medieval England came out with Boydell & Brewer in 2020,
and has won the Brewer Book Prize from the American Society of Church History.
Currently she is working on a project analyzing the influence of the visionary
St. Birgitta in late-medieval England, funded by the Research Council of
Norway.