IMC 2018: Sessions
Session 1623: Hagiography, Landscape, and Memory in Medieval East Anglia and Scandinavia
Thursday 5 July 2018, 11.15-12.45
| Organiser: | Rebecca Pinner, School of Literature & Creative Writing, University of East Anglia |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Rebecca Pinner, School of Literature & Creative Writing, University of East Anglia |
| Paper 1623-a | Shifts in the Sanctified Cultural Landscape: New Local Saints in Early Medieval Scandinavia (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Lay Piety |
| Paper 1623-b | A Place of Her Own: The Role of Sacred Landscape in the Cult of St Æthelthryth (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Language and Literature - Old English, Language and Literature - Latin |
| Paper 1623-c | Saints and Wetlands in Medieval East Anglia (Language: English) Index terms: Geography and Settlement Studies, Hagiography |
| Abstract | The symbolism of space and place was integral to the memorialisation of medieval saints. This session demonstrates the centrality of representations of the physical landscapes in which saints were remembered and into which their lives and deaths were written. Ellis Nilsson explores the ways in which perceptions of the sanctified landscape evolved in response to the emergence of new cults in conversion era Scandinavia. Black considers the multivalent contributions of landscape to the creation and explication of the cult of the East Anglian abbess Æthelthryth. Pinner explores the dialectic between the practical and the symbolic in the development of the cults of medieval East Anglian saints associated with wetland landscapes. |