16 February 2023, Starts: 19:00, Ends: 20:00

Connections and Memories: Domus Vallis Virtutis and the Burgh of Perth

Online talk by Dr Lucy Dean

Organised by UHI Centre for History as part of their History Talks Live talks. For booking information see their website

This talk will offer initial thoughts on research into the spaces that the Carthusian Charterhouse ‘without the south gates of the burgh of Perth’ inhabited and the reach of its influence in the burgh, alongside the echoes of its presence in the centuries after the physical building was destroyed and what this can tell us about connections and memories to place and space. When a building is lost from a townscape, memories of its existence continue to resonate long after physical loss. Buildings are not mere stones and mortar, nor even their elaborate decoration, they are active spaces housing human activities: they are shaped by the communities that they interact with and influence those around them, providing the spaces for fostering connections and even harbouring disputes.  

Dr Lucy Dean is lecturer and curriculum lead at the Centre for History, UHI. Her first monograph - Death and the Royal Succession in Scotland, c. 1214- 1543: Ritual, Ceremony and Power - will be published in 2023. She has published widely on ritual, ceremony, kingship and material culture, as well as co-editing Routledge History of Monarchy (2019) and Medieval and Early Modern Representations of Authority in Scotland and the British Isles (2016).