IMC 2011: Sessions

Session 1630: Hagiography and the Cult of the Martyrs, II: The Revival of Ancient Cults

Thursday 14 July 2011, 11.15-12.45

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 1630-a	Hagiography and the Cult of the Martyrs Lucianus and Piatus, 6th-11th Centuries (Language: English) Michèle Gaillard, Département d'Histoire / Institut de Recherches Historiques du Septentrion (IRHiS - UMR 8529), Université Charles-de-Gaulle Lille III Index terms: Hagiography, Religious Life
Paper 1630-b	Creating a Holy Martyr from Antiquity in the 10th-11th Centuries: The Case of Saint Paulinus of Trier (Language: English) Klaus Krönert, Département d'histoire / Institut de Recherches Historiques du Septentrion (IRHiS - UMR 8529), Université Lille III - Charles de Gaulle Index terms: Hagiography, Religious Life
Paper 1630-c	Translations in Lotharingia, 10th to 13th Century: Diffusion and Concentration of Episcopal Power (Language: English) Anne Wagner, Centre de Recherche Universitaire Lorrain d'Histoire (CRULH), Université de Lorraine / Département d'histoire, Université de Franche-Comté Index terms: Hagiography, Religious Life
Abstract	This session will deal with the new ways through which the cult of ancient martyrs were promoted during the Middle Ages. Some of them had their relics rediscovered and/or translated, others had their lives rewritten. Sometimes, new legendary narrative texts were forged in order to pay honour to martyrs so long completely unknown. We shall try to find out the different reasons why this cults were renewed.