IMC 2010: Sessions
Session 1020: Exiles, Missionaries, and Pilgrims: Identity, Hagiography, and Pilgrimage in the Columbanian Tradition
Wednesday 14 July 2010, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | European Review of History / Early Medieval Europe |
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| Organiser: | Sarah Tatum, University of Manchester |
| Moderator/Chair: | Paul Fouracre, School of Arts, Languages & Cultures, University of Manchester |
| Paper 1020-a | Ascetic Exile and the Shaping of Irish Identity in the Early Middle Ages (Language: English) Index terms: Monasticism, Religious Life |
| Paper 1020-b | Missionary, Miracle-Worker, Holy Man?: The Portrayal of Eustasius in the Vita Columbani (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Monasticism, Religious Life |
| Paper 1020-c | Holy Journeys and 10th-Century Bobbio: Tradition and Novelty in the Miracula sancti Columbani (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Religious Life |
| Abstract | The theme of travel is particularly relevant to Columbanian scholars in 2010, since it will be 1400 years since the Irish saint Columbanus made his final journey from Luxeuil to Bobbio. The session focuses on the travels of the saint, the missionary work of his followers and continuing practices of pilgrimage within the Columbanian tradition. The first paper looks at how exile formed the identities of the Irish peregrini on the Continent, the second on contemporary hagiographic representations of Columbanus's successor Eustasius as missionary and miracle-worker, and the third on the development of pilgrimage practices at Bobbio, Columbanus's final foundation. |