IMC 2018: Sessions
Session 323: Remembering Holy Bodies in the 12th and 13th Centuries
Monday 2 July 2018, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | Prato Consortium for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, Monash University, Victoria |
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| Organiser: | Peter Francis Howard, Centre for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, Monash University, Victoria |
| Moderator/Chair: | Peter Francis Howard, Centre for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, Monash University, Victoria |
| Paper 323-a | Owning the Madonna: The Madonna of Le Puy and Political Control, 1000-1200 (Language: English) Index terms: Politics and Diplomacy, Religious Life |
| Paper 323-b | Lives of Saints and Landscapes: Strategic Uses of the Natural World in 12th-Century German Hagiography (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Monasticism, Religious Life |
| Paper 323-c | The Political Use of a Provençal Saint's Body: Commemorating the Violence Done to Douceline of Digne, 1215-1274 (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Lay Piety, Literacy and Orality, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Abstract | Linked to the Body in the City Project, this session explores the diverse and often political agendas evident in the memorialisation of particular medieval saints and their holy bodies: the struggle to control and direct the ideological power of the black Madonna of Le Puy for political ends; Hildegard of Bingen's efforts to authoritatively embed her community in the local landscape and connect it to the life of the local saint, Rupert; and the mixed messages offered to the beguines of Marseille by the description of the public violence done to their foundress Douceline of Digne's body, as recorded in her Vita. |