IMC 2014: Sessions

Session 1135: Local Heroes: New Approaches to the Study of Minor Saints and Their Cults

Sponsor:	Hagiography Society
Organiser:	Anne E. Bailey, Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford
Moderator/Chair:	Rodney M. Thomson, School of History & Classics, University of Tasmania
Paper 1135-a	Beatus Cassiodorus: An Update (Language: English) Luciana Cuppo, Scuola Superiore per Mediatori Linguistici (CIELS), Padova Index terms: Hagiography, Monasticism
Paper 1135-b	St Folcuin of Thérouann, d. 855: From Minor Saint to Minor Saint (Language: English) David Defries, Department of History, Kansas State University Index terms: Hagiography, Monasticism
Paper 1135-c	From Sigismund to Sigismondo: A Renaissance Restyling of a Medieval Saint (Language: English) Costanza Gislon Dopfel, Department of Modern Languages / Department of Art History, Saint Mary's College of California Index terms: Art History - General, Hagiography, Local History
Abstract	This session provides an arena for scholars currently working on lesser-known saints and cults for which only fleeting textual, visual, and material evidence remains. The first paper pieces together the disparate evidence for the cult of the sixth-century martyr Cassiodorus, the second charts the promotion of the Carolingian saint Folcuin of Thérouann at the abbey of Saint-Bertin in the tenth and eleventh centuries, and the third paper returns to the sixth century to focus on the Burgundian saint, Sigismund, and his 'transformation' in Renaissance art, specifically in relation to Sigismondo Malatesta.