IMC 2018: Sessions
Session 1527: Early Saints in Modern Times
Thursday 5 July 2018, 09.00-10.30
Sponsor: | Cult of Saints Project, University of Oxford |
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Organiser: | Robert Wiśniewski, Instytut Historyczny, Uniwersytet Warszawski |
Moderator/Chair: | Gábor Klaniczay, Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest |
Paper 1527-a | Reviving the Cults of Perpetua and Felicity: Alfred-Louis Delattre and Christian Archaeology in Late 19th- and Early 20th-Century Carthage (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - General, Hagiography, Medievalism and Antiquarianism |
Paper 1527-b | Between Adaptation and Oblivion: Cinematic Sanctification and the World of Late Antiquity (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Medievalism and Antiquarianism |
Paper 1527-c | Remembering the Saints in a 21st-Century Database (Language: English) Index terms: Computing in Medieval Studies, 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. |