IMC 2018: Sessions
Session 1211: Mind over Matter: Debates about Relics as Sacred Objects, c. 350- c. 1150
Wednesday 4 July 2018, 14.15-15.45
Sponsor: | Mind over Matter: Debates about Relics as Sacred Objects, c. 350-c. 1150, NWO-VIDI Project |
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Organiser: | Janneke Raaijmakers, Afdeling Middeleeuwse Geschiedenis, Universiteit Utrecht |
Moderator/Chair: | Julia M. H. Smith, Faculty of History, University of Oxford |
Paper 1211-a | Material for Thought: Relic Veneration in the Earlier Middle Ages - Devotion, Reflection, and Doubt (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Religious Life |
Paper 1211-b | Inscribing Sanctity: An Epigraphic Approach to the Material Culture of the Cult of Relics in Western Christianity, c. 800-c. 1150 (Language: English) Index terms: Epigraphy, Hagiography, Religious Life |
Paper 1211-c | What Kind of Virtu(e)s?: Alcuin and Thiofrid on Sanctity and Relics, c. 800-1100 (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Religious Life, Theology |
Abstract | This session deals with debates about relics in the earlier Middle Ages. It presents some of the results and methodological challenges of the Vidi-project Mind Over Matter: Debates about Relics as Sacred Objects, c.350-c1150. The session focusses on reflections about sanctity and relics, as well as on the construction of 'relichood' through the use of the written word. |