IMC 2018: Sessions
Session 1123: Remembering the Saints, II: Forgotten and Ephemeral Saints
Wednesday 4 July 2018, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Cult of Saints Project, University of Oxford |
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| Organisers: | Bryan Ward-Perkins, Faculty of History, University of Oxford Robert Wiśniewski, Instytut Historyczny, Uniwersytet Warszawski |
| Moderator/Chair: | David Hunter, Department of Modern & Classical Languages, Literatures & Cultures, University of Kentucky |
| Paper 1123-a | How to Tell the Story of Obscure Martyrs?: Eupsychius, Mamas, and Gordius at Caesarea in Cappadocia (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Ecclesiastical History, Hagiography |
| Paper 1123-b | Syrian and Byzantine Saints in a 12th-Century Syriac Manuscript (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Hagiography, Islamic and Arabic Studies, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Abstract | These five sessions of 'Remembering the Saints' are all focused on the central theme of the 2018 IMC. They explore how the memory of saints was first moulded, and then progressively modified to fit changing circumstances. In most cases this was a successful process of adaptation; but there were also some saints who were quietly forgotten. A final session explores how the memory of late antique and early medieval saints has been presented and used in modern times - in colonial politics, in the cinema, and online. |