IMC 2014: Sessions

Session 635: Conversion Narratives in Hagiography, II

Tuesday 8 July 2014, 11.15-12.45

Sponsor:	St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies, University of St Andrews
Organisers:	Eilidh Harris, St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies, University of St Andrews Kimberley-Joy Knight, St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies, University of St Andrews
Moderator/Chair:	Frances Andrews, St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies, University of St Andrews
Paper 635-a	Conversation, Collaboration, and Conversion in the Low Countries (Language: English) Barbara Zimbalist, Department of English, University of Texas, El Paso Index terms: Gender Studies, Hagiography, Religious Life, Women's Studies
Paper 635-b	The Role of Tears in 13th-Century Conversion Narratives (Language: English) Kimberley-Joy Knight, St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies, University of St Andrews Index terms: Hagiography, Religious Life
Paper 635-c	Undoing Lives, Remaking Bodies: Reading Rites of Passage in the Later Life Conversion Narratives of Female Mystics (Language: English) Miriam Buncombe, St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies, University of St Andrews Index terms: Hagiography, Religious Life, Women's Studies
Abstract	Conversion experiences described in hagiographies are often rich narratives that convey much more than a binary transition. Although holy men and women may undergo a singular, Damascene moment of conversion, frequently their experience is ongoing, episodic and non-linear. Such processes are symbolically and emotionally charged. These sessions seeks to explore the diversity of conversion narratives and explore the many facets of the conversion process.