IMC 2018: Sessions
Session 1323: Remembering the Saints, IV: Creating and Adapting Memory in Early Medieval England and Wales
Wednesday 4 July 2018, 16.30-18.00
| 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/Chairs: | Bertrand Lançon, Département d'Histoire, Université de Limoges / Centre de recherche interdisciplinaire en histoire, histoire de l’art et musicologie, Université de Poitiers Bryan Ward-Perkins, Faculty of History, University of Oxford |
| Paper 1323-a | Manipulating Memory: St Ælfgifu of Shaftesbury's 'Resurrection' and the Politics of Sanctity (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Hagiography, Language and Literature - Old English |
| Paper 1323-b | Remembering St Germanus in 9th-Century Wales (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Hagiography |
| Paper 1323-c | Reworking Corporate Memory: St Calais (Carilefus) and St Cuthbert (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Hagiography |
| 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. |