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Delighted to announce the 6th volume in the series will be published in June! Click here for details about the forthcoming 'Print and Catholic Persistence in the Dutch Golden Age' by @ewatson.bsky.social boydellandbrewer.com/book/print-a...
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The ‘Praying with Objects’ online lecture series continues to take place on Tuesday evenings - do check out the programme and tune in via zoom - prayticipate.eu/activities/o...

We also have Short Term Scientific Mission grants available at present - these are very useful for scholars who wish to carry out specific research tasks or projects. Our website has examples of past STSM awardees which might inspire you! prayticipate.eu/grants/open-...

We have some wonderful events and opportunities available via the Prayticipate COST Action - including a wonderful series of events exploring the vocabularies of prayer through objects - expressions of interest by 28 Feb - prayticipate.eu/newsletter/c...

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On Tuesday, our lecture series “Praying with Objects” continued with a truly inspiring online lecture by Dr Jolanta Rzegocka (Ignatianum University, Kraków) on
“The Kraków Angelic Cross of St. Thomas Aquinas: A Figures Stone Prayer and Material Devotion.” Check out our site for link #prayticipate

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A marvellous series of online lectures organised by Dr Carolin Gluchowski of our Prayticipate Action - details and links here: prayticipate.eu/activities/o... #prayticipate

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Our new website is live!! Hurrah! 🎉 we will share all upcoming COST action events, calls for papers for relevant events, and news about available grants and opportunities. Do share widely with any Prayer Studies scholars/ Historians of Religion who might be interested! prayticipate.eu

Our COST Action wants to highlight the diversity of the #prayticipate prayer studies community during #Pride month. Do get in touch to share your research! #Skystorians

Bound for Devotion: The Prayer Book as Object and Practice, 1300–1800 Prayer was central to religious life in the late medieval and early modern period. Despite growing scholarly interest in religious texts, devotional practices, and spirituality, prayer and prayer book...

Our #prayticipate colleague Dr Anna Dlabacova (Leiden University) is running a conference on prayer books as object and practice 1300-1800 on 1-3 July 2026- details of the CFP are below! www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...

Grant awardees Learn more about our Prayticipate grant awardees below! PRAYTICIPATE Awards First Short-Term Scientific Mission (STSM) Grant to Dr Despina Iosif We are delighted to announce that the COST Action CA…

For more information on Dr Iosif’s work, and on how to engage with the #Prayticipate Action, please visit prayticipate.wordpress.com/grant-awarde...

The #Prayticipate team has awarded its First Short-Term Scientific Mission Grant! Dr Despina Iosif is an historian of the Greco-Roman world from the Hellenic Open University, Athens, & will work @durham-university.bsky.social on Prayer Inside Prisons According to the Christian Martyr Acts.

Friends Historical Association Grant Applications are Due May 31st!

The Friends Historical Association is pleased to offer funding to support contributions to the field of Quaker history…

You can read about CCS member @eilishgregory.bsky.social’s recent archive trip to Chicago and @notredame.bsky.social in the latest newsletter from the Cushwa Center, who awarded her a research travel grant cushwa.nd.edu/assets/61555... #skystorians #nuntastic

Exciting news - the fourth volume in our Catholicisms series under the IMEMS Press with @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social
is now available for pre-order! 📚

Click here to find out more about The Inquisition and the Christian East, 1350-1850: boydellandbrewer.com/978191496712...

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Grant awardees Learn more about our Prayticipate grant awardees below! First ITC Conference Grant Awarded to Dr Vladimir Cvetković We are proud to announce that the COST Action CA23143 Participation through Praye…

For more information on this project, and to learn about how to apply for grants and engage with the Action, please visit : prayticipate.wordpress.com/grant-awarde...

With the support of the PRAYTICIPATE ITC Conference Grant, Dr Cvetković will participate in the international conference “On the Future of the Una Sancta: Incarnate Reality and Eschatological Hope”, held on the island of Syros, Greece, from 29 May to 2 June 2025. #prayticipate

Some recent news! We are proud to announce that the Prayticipate COST Action has awarded its first Inclusive Target Country (ITC) Conference Grant to Dr Vladimir Cvetković, Research Professor at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade. #prayticipate

Hello Bluesky! This is the new account for our COST Action CA23143 Participation through Prayer in the Late Medieval and Early Modern World (PRAYTICIPATE) - we’d love to connect with anyone interested in/ connected to prayer studies/ museums/ sites associated with prayer! #prayticipate