IMC 2021: Sessions
Session 314: Weather Saints, II: Water in Texts and Images
Monday 5 July 2021, 16.30-18.00
| Organiser: | Andrea-Bianka Znorovszky, Trivent Publishing, Budapest |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Andrea-Bianka Znorovszky, Trivent Publishing, Budapest |
| Paper 314-a | Worlds of Storms, Hail, Floods, and Drought: Weather in 14th-Century Church Slavonic Manuscripts Translated from the Byzantine Metaphrastic Menologion (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 314-b | The Chants against a Tempest: The Chants as Part of the Prayers for Protection in a Storm Found in Medieval Manuscripts, 14th-15th Centuries (Language: English) Index terms: Liturgy, Music |
| Paper 314-c | An Image between Miracle and Climate: The Iconography of Our Lady of the Snows in Italian Illuminated Manuscripts (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Hagiography |
| Abstract | The session deals with the construction of saints and their relation to weather as reflected in hagiographic, liturgical, and visual material. The session has in its core the element of water, more precisely the waters of the sea, snow, and/or the rain of tempests. The hagiographic sources display weather in a variety of contexts starting with aspects of God's divine authority, and ending with aspects of daily life, while the liturgical material reflects a direct connection between humans and god. The visual material analyses the construction of miracles and their relation to cults of saints and their relics. |