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On 4 July 2018 the "Cities of Readers" project organised a lively and interesting series of no less than four sessions at the International Medieval Conference in Leeds:Session I: Shared devotional cultureAnna Dlabačová (Leiden University): Belief in Business: The Role of Commercially Produced Religious Incunabula in a Shared Textual and Devotional CultureJohanneke Uphoff (University of Groningen): Bequeathing Books: Book Donation and Shared Devotional Culture between Lay and Religious in the Late Medieval Low CountriesSession II: The Performance of WritingIsabelle Bretthauer (Université de Caen Normandie): The Manuscripts of the “Coutume de Normandie”: Between Legal Uses and Religious ConsciousnessWendy Scase (University of Birmingham): Performing Scribal Identity in Medieval English Devotional ManuscriptsSabrina Corbellini (University of Groningen): Scripto per me:The Performance of Writing in Late Medieval ItalySession III: The performance of textOlivia Robinson (Université de Fribourg): Deguilleville in the Convent: Pilgrimage, Poem and Play-scriptSarah Brazil (University of Geneva): Experiencing comedy in Early English biblical dramaBart Ramakers (University of Groningen): A Miracle Staged: Performative Didactics in Cornelis Everaert’s Play of Mary’s ChapletSession IV: The Performance of Reading: Texts, Objects, Spaces, and PracticesJoanka van der Laan (University of Groningen): Having Christ as a Companion: The Significance of Daily Movement in Middle Dutch Devotional TextsSarah Joan Moran (Utrecht University): The Impact of Catholic Reform on Domestic Devotional Art in the Southern Low Countries: Case Studies and Avenues for ResearchMargriet Hoogvliet (University of Groningen): Conceptualising the “vita activa” as a Space for Religious Life&#160;