IMC 2019: Sessions
Session 545: Names in Sacred Spaces: Studying the Intentions and Effects of the Act of Writing One's Name, I - Constructing Sacred Spaces
Tuesday 2 July 2019, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | Van Gogh Project MEDNAME / Centre d'Études Supérieures de Civilisation Médiévale (CESCM - UMR 7302), Université de Poitiers / NWO-VIDI Project 'Mind over Matter: Debates about relics as sacred objects, c. 350-c. 1150', Universiteit Utrecht |
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| Organisers: | Estelle Ingrand-Varenne, Centre d'Études Supérieures de Civilisation Médiévale (CESCM), Université de Poitiers / Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris Elisa Pallottini, Dipartimento di Storia, Culture, Religioni, Università degli Studi di Roma 'La Sapienza' |
| Moderator/Chair: | Janneke Raaijmakers, Afdeling Middeleeuwse Geschiedenis, Universiteit Utrecht |
| Paper 545-a | 'Hic fuit': Scratching Names on Sacred Walls (Language: English) Index terms: Epigraphy, Literacy and Orality, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Mentalities |
| Paper 545-b | Names and (Instead of?) Relics: The Materialities of Saints' Names on Epigraphic Relic 'Authentics' (Language: English) Index terms: Epigraphy, Literacy and Orality, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Mentalities |
| Paper 545-c | The Names in the Frescoes of the Crypt in Saint-Savin Abbey (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Religious, Art History - Painting, Epigraphy, Literacy and Orality |
| Abstract | The session focuses on the relationship between written names and sacred spaces, exploring the role(s) that names as well as the physical action of writing them played in the construction of the holiness of the space on which they had been written down. Papers address names of both the saints and the faithful that are scratched, carved, or painted on sacred objects and sacred places, ranging from the epigraphic 'relic-labels' which identified the relics, to graffiti on church walls, and the pictorial narratives in crypts of Romanesque churches. |