IMC 2010: Sessions
Session 120: The Anglo-Saxons and Rome, I: Pilgrimage and Ecclesiastical Business
Monday 12 July 2010, 11.15-12.45
| Organiser: | Francesca Tinti, Departamento de Historia Medieval, Moderna y de América, Universidad del País Vasco / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, Vitoria |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Katy Cubitt, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York |
| Paper 120-a | Rome in the 7th and 8th Centuries: The Pilgrims' City (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Religious, Ecclesiastical History |
| Paper 120-b | St Boniface's Journeys to Rome: The Letters and Hagiographies (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Hagiography |
| Paper 120-c | Archiepiscopal Journeys to Rome to Collect the Pallium (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Abstract | This is the first of a strand of two sessions on Anglo-Saxon travel to and contacts with Rome. The first paper will examine accounts of visitors to Rome from the time of Gregory the Great to the mid-8th century. It will also make use of other types of sources to explore the city's topography, especially its principal churches, cult sites, and processional routes. The second paper will focus on the journeys to Rome of a specific traveller - St Boniface – thanks to the evidence provided by hagiographical texts and correspondence. The third paper will move on to the later Anglo-Saxon period to investigate the origins of and the reasons for archiepiscopal journeys to Rome to collect the pallium in person, a practice which the English seem to have cherished before it also became common for metropolitans from other areas of Western Christianity. |