IMC 2014: Sessions
Session 127: Texts and Identities, I: Germanus of Auxerre
Monday 7 July 2014, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien / Utrecht Centre for Medieval Studies, Universiteit Utrecht / Faculty of History, University of Cambridge |
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| Organisers: | E. T. Dailey, Amsterdam University Press / Arc Humanities Press / Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo Gerda Heydemann, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien / Institut für Geschichte, Universität Wien |
| Moderator/Chair: | Maximilian Diesenberger, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien |
| Paper 127-a | Germanus between Episcopacy and Papacy (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Hagiography, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 127-b | The Cosmopolitan Saint (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Hagiography, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 127-c | Germanus and the End of Roman Britain (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Hagiography, Historiography - Modern Scholarship |
| Abstract | This session deals with bishop Germanus of Auxerre as a subject of hagiographical and historiographical efforts in Late Antiquity and beyond. First Andreas Fischer will analyse the circumstances which brought Germanus on his mission to Britain and their presentation in the sources. Jamie Kreiner will then examine how Germanus's successive hagiographers represented him as a member of the elite, depending on his social context. Finally, in a paper dedicated to historiography Ian Wood will look at when the Vita Germani became the major source for the end of Roman Britain. |