IMC 2022: Sessions
Session 707: Between Local Identities and Transregional Influences: Medieval Saints in the Baltic Sea Region, I
Tuesday 5 July 2022, 14.15-15.45
Sponsor: | DFG Projekt 'Heilige und Helden von der Christianisierung bis zum Nationalismus: Symbole, Bilder, Erinnerung (Nord-West Russland, baltische und nordische Länder)', Universität Greifswald |
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Organiser: | Gustavs Strenga, School of Humanities, Tallinn University |
Moderator/Chair: | Gustavs Strenga, School of Humanities, Tallinn University |
Paper 707-a | From Patrociny to Hagio-Toponym: Toponymic Changes and the Saints' Cult in Medieval Livonia (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Hagiography |
Paper 707-b | Orthodox Saints of Karelia: Medieval Cults and National Romanticist Interpolations (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Hagiography |
Abstract | The medieval saints were not just religious figures. Their cults expressed local social and political contexts and the study of them allows to reveal regional histories. However, medieval sainthood had the potential to be a transregional phenomenon. This session will discuss the relationship between regional and transregional expressions of sainthood in medieval Northern (Livonia and Finland) and Eastern (kingdom of Poland, Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and the Republic of Novgorod) Europe and allow to compare Orthodox and Catholic saints' cults in this respect. |