The Leicester Medieval Research Centre
Brixworth Lecture: Pastoral Provision and the Benedictine Reform in the 10th century: A context for Brixworth
Event details
- Professor Joyce Hill (Leeds)
- When: 5.00pm, Saturday 1 November 2025 (tea from 3.30pm)
- Where: All Saints' Church, Station Road, Brixworth, Northampton NN6 9DF
- Contact: Friends of Brixworth Church
Professor Joyce Hill was Professor of Old and Middle English Language and Literature at the University of Leeds, and, latterly also its first woman Pro-Vice-Chancellor. Joyce was also a member of the Chapter of Ripon Cathedral (2011–23). She is a member of the national body which oversees the preservation of the heritage of the English cathedrals (the Cathedrals Fabric Commission for England), and is an elected member of the General Synod, the Church of England’s national ‘parliament’, recently serving a five-year term as one of its Chairs.
Her Brixworth lecture reflects her international expertise as a scholar of the language and literature of Anglo-Saxon England, focusing particularly on the Church reforms of the mid tenth century, and what they would have meant for the people who worshipped at Brixworth at the time.