IMC 2018: Sessions
Session 823: Remembering the Northern English Saints, II: Text and Gender
Tuesday 3 July 2018, 16.30-18.00
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: | Christiania Whitehead, Faculté des lettres, Université de Lausanne |
Paper 823-a | The Absence of the Middle English Lives of St Hild of Whitby (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Language and Literature - Middle English, Religious Life |
Paper 823-b | Northern Saints and Southern Sisters: Unlocking a Late Medieval Benedictine Mystery (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Language and Literature - Middle English, Monasticism |
Paper 823-c | Flower of York: Region and Nation in Late Medieval Devotion to St Robert of Knaresborough (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Hagiography, Monasticism |
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 II focuses on the unexpected obscurity of St Hilda of Whitby within late medieval vernacular hagiography, the memorial links constructed between north and south in the Lives of St Werburge of Chester and St Radegunde, and the regional and national agendas that frame the textual corpus relaying the cult of St Robert of Knaresborough. |