IMC 2021: Sessions

Session 214: Weather Saints, I: Territories and Communities

Monday 5 July 2021, 14.15-15.45

Organiser:	Andrea-Bianka Znorovszky, Trivent Publishing, Budapest
Moderator/Chair:	Andrea-Bianka Znorovszky, Trivent Publishing, Budapest
Paper 214-a	Redeeming the Wastelands: Nature and Weather in the Hagiography of St Guthlac (Language: English) John Black, Department of English, Moravian College, Pennsylvania Index terms: Hagiography, Language and Literature - Other
Paper 214-b	Identity, Community, Pedagogy: Interacting with the Elements in the Life of St Columba (Language: English) Christina Carlson, Department of English, Iona College, New York Index terms: Hagiography, Teaching the Middle Ages
Paper 214-c	Demonstrating Divine Power: St Patrick's Effect on the Irish Environment in the Medieval Lives (Language: English) Claire Collins, School of History, University College Dublin Index terms: Hagiography, Medievalism and Antiquarianism, Mentalities, Theology
Abstract	The session deals with the cult of weather saints and their relation and interaction with communities from various (macro - micro) areas: Ireland, England, Iona Island, and Winchester. It explores both the sociological and textual level of the concept of community and the community's relation to sanctity and weather. The concept of community is viewed both as a textual and as a social construct. The social level 1. brings forth the multiple functions of the weather that 1. has symbolic spiritual values and 2. highlights social, political, and historical reasons for the promotion of certain saints. The textual level views the intercessory function of saints and their relation with monastic and lay communities.