Visiting Assistant Professor of History Carolyn Twomey presented her paper, “Ritual & Reuse: Early Baptismal Fonts in the Medieval West," during an international conference at Durham University in Northern England.
Her paper takes a material and environmental approach to the reuse of high crosses as stone baptismal fonts and how religious rituals were practiced in the multivalent watery environments of early Europe.
Twomey’s research focuses on rituals and environments of water in the early Middle Ages as well as the cultural and religious history of material culture and sacred spaces from late antiquity to the present in Europe and the Mediterranean.
