IMC 2014: Sessions

Session 1635: Shifting Practices, Priorities, and Perceptions: The Changing Nature of Medieval Saints' Cults

Thursday 10 July 2014, 11.15-12.45

Sponsor:	Hagiography Society
Organiser:	Kathryn Gerry, Department of Art History, University of Kansas
Moderator/Chair:	Kathryn Gerry, Department of Art History, University of Kansas
Paper 1635-a	Orm's Love of Mary: The Vernacularisation of the Stella Maris in Early Medieval England (Language: English) Carla María Thomas, Department of English, New York University Index terms: Hagiography, Language and Literature - Old English
Paper 1635-b	An Early 13th-Century Variation on the Martyrium of Modestos of Jerusalem (d. 634) (Language: English) Beatrice Daskas, Dipartimento di Storia delle Arti, della Musica e dello Spettacolo, Università degli Studi, Milano Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Hagiography, Language and Literature - Greek
Paper 1635-c	The Depiction of the Soul of Amand in Valenciennes Bibliothèque MS 500 in the Context of Cultural Alterations to the Vita and Their Implications for the Importance of the Cult of the Saint (Language: English) Maria Grasso, Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London Index terms: Art History - General, Hagiography, Manuscripts and Palaeography
Abstract	Whether considered from the standpoint of a single cult centre, or a saint with a following spread over a wide geographic area, the practices, motivations, and audiences of saints' cults often changed over time. Papers in this panel might explore this issue through a variety of lenses: using available documentation of cult practice and promotion, iconographic changes seen in the representation of saints over time, alterations made to shrines and buildings, developments in the hagiographical tradition as witnessed by surviving copies of vitae, or other approaches.