IMC 2018: Sessions
Session 723: Remembering the Northern English Saints, I: Buildings and Bodies
Tuesday 3 July 2018, 14.15-15.45
Sponsor: | Late Medieval Devotion to Northern English Saints, Swiss National Science Foundation Project |
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Organiser: | Christiania Whitehead, Faculté des lettres, Université de Lausanne |
Moderator/Chair: | Denis Renevey, Faculté des lettres, Université de Lausanne |
Paper 723-a | Reusing the Cathedral: Space, Ritual, and Community in Late Medieval Durham (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Religious, Ecclesiastical History, Hagiography |
Paper 723-b | Keeping it in the Familia: Creating and Recreating the Cult of Saints in Northern England, 1300-1500 (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Religious, Art History - General, Ecclesiastical History, Hagiography |
Paper 723-c | Flesh, Bone, and Text: Reading Relics in Anglo-Norman Saints' Lives (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Language and Literature - French or Occitan, Religious Life |
Abstract | Despite widespread interest in the cults of northern English saints in the early Middle Ages (pre-1200), comparatively little work has been done on the degree to which, and the ways in which these early northern saints were remembered (or occasionally obscured) in the post-1300 period. Session I focuses on the memories embedded in artistic and material culture, examining the implications of late medieval revisions to sacred architectural space, notably at Durham Cathedral, the evidence of pilgrimages and processions, and the tension between memorialisation and ongoing presence inherent in the veneration of the saints' body relics. The northern cults under consideration include those of Saints Cuthbert, Aidan, Bede, and William of York. |