Catherine-Rose Hailstone

Other Affiliations:
University of York, History, Faculty MemberUniversity of York, Centre for Medieval Studies and Department of History, Graduate Student
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Research Interests:
Gregory of tours, Fear, Historical Theology/Church History: Early Christianity, Early Christian Theology, Merovingian period, History Of Emotions, and 5 moreMedieval theories of passions, Early Medieval History, Late Antiquity, History of Science, and Medieval Medicineedit
About:
Currently an Early Career Fellow in the Department of History at Durham University, Catherine is working on a 3-year project, Emotional Architectures: Atmospheres of Power in Late Antique Churches, funded by The Leverhulme Trust. Before ... moreCurrently an Early Career Fellow in the Department of History at Durham University, Catherine is working on a 3-year project, Emotional Architectures: Atmospheres of Power in Late Antique Churches, funded by The Leverhulme Trust. Before that she was an Associate Lecturer in the Department of History at The University of York (2021-2022) where she completed her WRoCAH (AHRC) funded doctoral research on 'Fear in the Mind and Works of Gregory of Tours' (2016-2020), MA (2014-2015), and BA (2011-2014).

Catherine is currently writing a monograph: God, Demons, and Fear in Gregory of Tours, chapters of which are currently under consideration with Oxford University Press. She has recently published an article on 'Atmospheric Architecture: Gregory of Tours's use of the fear of God in Tours Cathedral and the Basilica of St. Martin', in Early Medieval Europe, 30, no. 2 (2022), 325-349.edit
Supervisors:
Professor Guy Halsall, Professor Helen Foxhall Forbesedit

This article explores how and why Gregory of Tours encoded the fear of God into the architecture of Tours cathedral and the Basilica of St Martin. Using Gregory’s writings, in combination with the poetry of Venantius Fortunatus and the inscriptions that adorned the interior walls of the basilica, this paper argues that Gregory followed the church building practices of Namatius of Clermont and Perpetuus of Tours and encrypted this divine fear into the architecture of these sacred buildings in order to fulfil his pastoral duties and visually display his episcopal status.