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SUMMARY:Gender\, Social Status and the Late Medieval Pilgrimage to Saint P
 atrick’s Purgatory
DESCRIPTION:The Ideology\, Society and Medieval Religion seminar series is
  delighted to present Tara Shields (Queen's University Belfast) as our No
 vember speaker. She will be speaking on "Beyond Elite Men: Gender\, Socia
 l Status and the Late Medieval Pilgrimage to Saint Patrick’s Purgatory"\n
 \nSaint Patrick’s Purgatory was one of late medieval Europe’s most remote
 \, yet most famous\, pilgrimage destinations. This paper challenges the s
 upposition that the site was reserved exclusively for the male elite\, by
  demonstrating how access to Saint Patrick’s Purgatory extended beyond no
 blemen to include pilgrims of both genders and diverse social and profess
 ional backgrounds. Situating the Purgatory within the broader context of 
 late medieval Irish pilgrimage\, this study challenges assumptions about 
 gender\, social status\, and access\, offering a more inclusive understan
 ding of the medieval pilgrimage experience\, and the diverse communities 
 who participated in this important devotional practice.\n\n'Tara Shields 
 is a medieval historian who received her PhD from Queen’s University Belf
 ast in July 2026. Her thesis\, Power and Pilgrimage on the Periphery: Gae
 lic Lords\, European Pilgrims and the Networks of Saint Patrick’s Purgato
 ry\, c. 1350–c. 1550 explores the relationships between Gaelic lordship\,
  pilgrimage\, and the international networks surrounding Saint Patrick’s 
 Purgatory in late medieval Ireland. She has lectured at Queen’s Universit
 y Belfast on medieval travel\, and her recent open-access article\, ‘“Co\
 n\nhttp://next-to-u.app/events/8c283823-97cd-4585-b678-e711f1c14964
URL:http://next-to-u.app/events/8c283823-97cd-4585-b678-e711f1c14964
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