IMC 2018: Sessions

Session 1215: Cultural Memory and Materiality in the Cult of Saints

Wednesday 4 July 2018, 14.15-15.45

Sponsor:	Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest
Organiser:	Gábor Klaniczay, Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest
Moderator/Chair:	Gábor Klaniczay, Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest
Respondent:	Kateřina Horníčková, Sonderforschungsbereich Project 'Visions of Community', Universität Wien / Southern Bohemian University, České Budějovice
Paper 1215-a	Re-Shaping Cultural Memory: The Cult of Slavonic Saints in 14th-Century Bohemia (Language: English) Zoë Opačić, Department of History of Art, Birkbeck, University of London Index terms: Art History - General, Religious Life
Paper 1215-b	Household Objects as Memorials to St Margaret's Ordinary and Extraordinary Powers (Language: English) Ildikó Csepregi, Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest Index terms: Hagiography, Religious Life
Paper 1215-c	Saints and Spolia: Cult of the Saints as (a Form of) Cultural Memory in Medieval Dalmatia (Language: English) Trpimir Vedriš, Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences, University of Zagreb Index terms: Hagiography, Religious Life
Abstract	The cult of saints are prime carriers of cultural memory in the Middle Ages. Much of this memory perpetuated by writings - legends, offices, hymns - has been studied in great detail. Our session intends to concentrate upon a less exploited set of carriers of cultural memory: the objects related to the cult of saints, such as relics, art works, and the material, special arrangement of their cult sites. At the same time we intend to provide a sample of Central European research on saints: we have a Croatian, a Hungarian, and a Czech subject.