IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 1547: Boundaries of Holiness, Frontiers of Sanctity, I
Thursday 9 July 2020, 09.00-10.30
Sponsor: | National Science Centre Poland Project 'Epiphanies of Saints in Late-Antique Greek Literature' |
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Organiser: | Julia Doroszewska, Instytut Historyczny Uniwersytet Warszawski |
Moderator/Chair: | Robert Wiśniewski, Instytut Historyczny, Uniwersytet Warszawski |
Paper 1547-a | 'On Earth as it is in Heaven': Late Antique Saints and Secular Celebrity (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Language and Literature - Latin, Religious Life |
Paper 1547-b | The Holy Men beyond the Limits of Humanity in Hagiography, Documentary Papyri, and Graffiti from Western Thebes (Language: English) Index terms: Epigraphy, Language and Literature - Comparative, Language and Literature - Greek, Monasticism |
Paper 1547-c | Imperial Sainthood?: Justinian's Body between the Political and Religious Spheres (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Greek |
Abstract | This tripartite session aims at exploring the boundaries of holiness and their negotiation in Late Antiquity and Byzantium. Due to their intermediate position between God and the ordinary man, holy men need to operate between the spiritual world and this world. The question thus arises what is it that distinguishes them from both of these realms. The papers will address the following issues: how the saints transgress the boundaries of their humanity?; are these boundaries clear or blurred?; what are the markers of the holy?; does their holiness have a spatial dimension as well? |