IMC 2015: Sessions
Session 1712: Demons in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, II
Thursday 9 July 2015, 14.15-15.45
Organiser: | Eoghan Ahern, Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic, University of Cambridge |
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Moderator/Chair: | Rosalind Love, Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic, University of Cambridge |
Paper 1712-a | '[...] et in cathedra pestilentiae non sedit': Carolingian Kingship and the Demon by the Throne (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Decorative Arts, Politics and Diplomacy |
Paper 1712-b | 'Sed diabolus hoc noluit': Demonic Encounters in Early Irish Hagiography and Its Contemporary Exegesis (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Language and Literature - Latin |
Abstract | This strand examines the ways in which demons were conceived in late antique and early medieval sources and explores their cultural and spiritual roles. The second session is concerned with the depiction of demons in art and hagiography and will concentrate on two different contexts: a) the illumination of the Utrecht Psalter, fol. 1v, and its relationship to early 9th-century Carolingian kingship; b) early Irish Saint's Lives and the links with their patristic predecessors and the contemporary Insular milieu. |