IMC 2019: Sessions

Session 638: Materiality and the Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, II: Focusing Cult

Sponsor:	Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity Project / Presbyters in the Late Antique West Project
Organisers:	Bryan Ward-Perkins, Faculty of History, University of Oxford Robert Wiśniewski, Instytut Historyczny, Uniwersytet Warszawski
Moderator/Chair:	Ian N. Wood, School of History, University of Leeds
Paper 638-a	The Material of Ritual?: Caring for Relics in 10th-Century Anglo-Saxon England (Language: English) Sumner Braund, St John's College, University of Oxford Index terms: Hagiography, Liturgy, Mentalities, Religious Life
Paper 638-b	The Private Ownership of Relics in the Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity Database (Language: English) Bryan Ward-Perkins, Faculty of History, University of Oxford Index terms: Hagiography, Lay Piety, Religious Life, Social History
Paper 638-c	Sepulcri, Leachta, and the Role of Relics in Church Consecration in Early Medieval Ireland (Language: English) Niamh Wycherley, University College Dublin Index terms: Architecture - Religious, Hagiography, Liturgy, Religious Life
Abstract	The two sessions of 'Materiality and the Cult of Saints' examine the physical setting, and the physical objects of cult. In this second session, a central focus of cult, the relics of saints, is explored.