IMC 2015: Sessions
Session 1230: Renewal in the Cults of Saints: 1050-1300
Wednesday 8 July 2015, 14.15-15.45
Organiser: | Steffen Hope, Centre for Medieval Literature, Syddansk Universitet, Odense |
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Moderator/Chair: | Claire Trenery, Department of History, Royal Holloway, University of London |
Paper 1230-a | Prophet of Conquest: Reinventing St Dunstan in Anglo-Norman England (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Latin |
Paper 1230-b | Like Silver is Refined: The Distillation of Saints from Hagiography to Liturgy in the 12th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Language and Literature - Latin, Liturgy |
Abstract | The veneration of saints was a constant in the medieval world, but the cult of any individual saint could be subject to reinvention, reinterpretation, and reformulation in a number of different ways. This session will explore processes of renewal and adaptation in the development of saints' cults across changing cultural, literary, and devotional contexts, focusing on three examples of saints renewed: the reinvention of St Dunstan after the Norman Conquest, 12th-century reformulations of Olaf of Norway and Edmund of East Anglia as hagiography was distilled into liturgy, and the developing iconography of the cult of St Christopher. |