IMC 2022: Sessions
Session 1342: Global Saints, Global Holiness: A Round Table Discussion
Wednesday 6 July 2022, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | Hagiography Society |
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| Organiser: | Stephanie Grace-Petinos, Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| Moderator/Chairs: | Jennifer Alberghini, Department of English Queens College City University of New York Stephanie Grace-Petinos, Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| Abstract | This round table discussion brings together scholars from various disciplines for a comparative look at 'saints' and 'holiness' across cultural, linguistic, religious, and geographic borders during the Middle Ages. The participants discuss questions comprising: what is holiness? What are the characteristics, definitions, categories, and considerations that make a person holy? Who or what determines when holiness has occurred or can be bestowed upon an individual? The papers include: holiness across the Latin West, Greek East, and Tang China; a 13th-century Turkic-Islamic warrior-saint; Javanese saints / holiness; early medieval English hagiographical texts; and, as a counterpoint, examples where saints-to-be were neglected and forgotten. Participants include Nikolas O. Hoel (Northeastern Illinois University), Hee Sook Lee-Niinioja (Independent Scholar, Helsinki), Tom Revell (University of Oxford), and Marijana Vuković (Syddansk Universitet). |