IMC 2013: Sessions
Session 504: Relics: East and West - Inventions and Translations, I
Tuesday 2 July 2013, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | UMR 'Orient et Méditerranée' (8167), Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris / École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris / Centre de Recherches Historiques, Université Paris VIII - Vincennes-Saint-Denis |
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| Organisers: | Olivier Delouis, Laboratoire Orient-Méditerranée, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris Michel Kaplan, UFR d'histoire, Université Paris I - Panthéon-Sorbonne |
| Moderator/Chair: | Anne-Marie Helvétius, amhelvetius@univ-paris8.fr |
| Paper 504-a | Why Did People Invent Relics in the Roman East, 4th-6th Centuries? (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Hagiography, Religious Life |
| Paper 504-b | Moving Relics and Writing Texts between Northern Italy and Alemannia, 9th-10th Centuries (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Religious Life |
| Paper 504-c | Translation inside the Same Sanctuary: Theodora of Thessaloniki (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Hagiography, Religious Life |
| Abstract | Relics are one the main feature of religious life in Eastern as well as Western Christianity. To possess and display relics was an important concern for monasteries, public churches, and kings or emperors. Some relics were very sought-after. These two sessions aim to deal with how and why new relics were invented and/or translated and what were the religious, social, and political stakes of these inventions and/or translations. Both will compare East and West and show the links between the two parts of Christianity. |