IMC 2008: Sessions
Session 304: Hagiography and Cult of the Martyrs, II: The Renewal of the Cult of Early Martyrs in the Middle Ages
Monday 7 July 2008, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | Centre Régional Universitaire Lorrain d'Histoire (CRULH), Université Paul Verlaine de Metz |
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| Organiser: | Michèle Gaillard, Département d'Histoire / Institut de Recherches Historiques du Septentrion (IRHiS - UMR 8529), Université Charles-de-Gaulle Lille III |
| Moderator/Chair: | Anne-Marie Helvétius, amhelvetius@univ-paris8.fr |
| Paper 304-a | The Rictiovarus' Cycle: The Manuscript Evidence (9th-11th Centuries) (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Religious Life |
| Paper 304-b | The Martyrs of Trier: Origins and Development of a Legend, 10th-12th Centuries (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Mentalities, Religious Life |
| Paper 304-c | How to Move a Saint: The Recontextualisation of Serena, Martyr of Spoleto (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Mentalities, Religious Life |
| Abstract | As far as comparative hagiography is concerned, few studies have dealt with martyrs. Nonetheless, martyrs remain an hagiographic topic shared by different cultural times and areas and the success of the martyr's cult was foremost during the whole medieval period.The second session will deal with the revival of the cult of ancient martyrs during the Middle Ages, through the writing or rewriting of literary cycles. These cycles consist of hagiographical narratives linked to each other by the figures of the martyrs and their persecutors. This revival also consist in creating a new cult thanks to a spectacular invention or translation of some martyr's relics so far forgotten or neglected. |