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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
Organiser:Janneke Raaijmakers, Afdeling Middeleeuwse Geschiedenis, Universiteit Utrecht
Moderator/Chair:Julia M. H. Smith, Faculty of History, University of Oxford
Paper 1211-aMaterial for Thought: Relic Veneration in the Earlier Middle Ages - Devotion, Reflection, and Doubt
(Language: English)
Janneke Raaijmakers, Afdeling Middeleeuwse Geschiedenis, Universiteit Utrecht
Index terms: Hagiography, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Religious Life
Paper 1211-bInscribing Sanctity: An Epigraphic Approach to the Material Culture of the Cult of Relics in Western Christianity, c. 800-c. 1150
(Language: English)
Elisa Pallottini, Dipartimento di Storia, Culture, Religioni, Università degli Studi di Roma 'La Sapienza'
Index terms: Epigraphy, Hagiography, Religious Life
Paper 1211-cWhat Kind of Virtu(e)s?: Alcuin and Thiofrid on Sanctity and Relics, c. 800-1100
(Language: English)
Jelle Visser, Departement Geschiedenis en Kunstgeschiedenis, Universiteit Utrecht
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.