IMC 2016: Sessions

Session 1607: Dividing and Collecting Bodily Relics in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, II: Bones and Community Identity

Sponsor:	European Research Council Project ‘The Cult of Saints’, University of Oxford
Organisers:	Julia M. H. Smith, School of Humanities (History), University of Glasgow Bryan Ward-Perkins, Faculty of History, University of Oxford
Moderator/Chair:	Janneke Raaijmakers, Afdeling Middeleeuwse Geschiedenis, Universiteit Utrecht
Paper 1607-a	Holy Men on a Holy Mountain and a Holy Mountain in Holy Men (Language: English) Saskia Dirkse, Theologische Fakultät, Universität Basel Index terms: Hagiography, Religious Life
Paper 1607-b	The Forty Martyrs of Sebaste and the Paradigm of Division and Unity in Cult and Relics Veneration (Language: English) Efthymios Rizos, Faculty of History, University of Oxford Index terms: Hagiography, Religious Life
Paper 1607-c	The Circulation of Body-Part Relics in Pre-Carolingian Gaul (Language: English) Julia M. H. Smith, School of Humanities (History), University of Glasgow Index terms: Hagiography, Religious Life
Abstract	Relics played a central role in establishing and consolidating identity; but this could be done in different ways - for instance by dispersing relics and spreading their power, or by concentrating them in particular places. This session will examine concentration and dispersal across several cultures: Sinai, Asia Minor, and Gaul.