IMC 2015: Sessions
Session 136: Saints' Cults, Powers, and Ideology of Power, 9th-12th Century
Monday 6 July 2015, 11.15-12.45
Sponsor: | Institut de Recherches et d'histoire du Septentrion (IRHiS - UMR 8529), Université de Lille 3 / Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) |
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Organiser: | Michèle Gaillard, Département d'Histoire / Institut de Recherches Historiques du Septentrion (IRHiS - UMR 8529), Université Charles-de-Gaulle Lille III |
Moderator/Chair: | Anne-Marie Helvétius, amhelvetius@univ-paris8.fr |
Paper 136-a | Princely Affairs: St Michael and Carolingian Kings (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Political Thought |
Paper 136-b | A Fighting Hagiography: The Life and Miracles of St Hunegund of Homblières, by Abbot Berner (Diocese of Noyon, 10th Century) (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Monasticism |
Paper 136-c | The Lives of Eleutherius and the Claim for Independence of the Diocese of Tournai (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Hagiography |
Abstract | This session aims to study three cases in which hagiographic writings and iconographic representations of saints were used to provide ideological support for royal power, to defend monastic property against aristocratic powers, and to strengthen the claims of a local religious community. |