IMC 2019: Sessions
Session 638: Materiality and the Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, II: Focusing Cult
Tuesday 2 July 2019, 11.15-12.45
Sponsor: | Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity Project / Presbyters in the Late Antique West Project |
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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) 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) 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) 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. |