IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 106: Punitive Miracles in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, I
Monday 3 July 2023, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Wydział Historii, Uniwersytet Warszawski |
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| Organisers: | Juliana Santos Dinoa Medeiros, Wydział Historii, Uniwersytet Warszawski Robert Wiśniewski, Instytut Historyczny, Uniwersytet Warszawski |
| Moderator/Chair: | Robert Wiśniewski, Instytut Historyczny, Uniwersytet Warszawski |
| Paper 106-a | A Widow's Curse of Her Ten Children in a 5th-Century Testimony in Augustine (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Hagiography, Language and Literature - Latin |
| Paper 106-b | Cunning, Tricks, and Mockery: Punitive Miracles in the Early Byzantine Miracle Collections (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Hagiography, Language and Literature - Greek |
| Paper 106-c | The Just-Deserts of Irreverence in the Missionary Hagiography of the 9th and 10th Centuries (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Hagiography, Religious Life |
| Abstract | Miracles are a common feature of Christian narrative in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. But while some people were healed, exorcised or protected by the power of God or his saints, others were punished. Punitive miracles tell us a lot about models of sanctity and functions of literary texts, but also about religious, social and economic fears of the period. These session aims to discuss various ways of how punitive miracles were perceived in Christian mentality and used in narrative. Examining evidence coming from different parts of Christendom, Session I will focus on how the agents of punishment were portrayed within the hagiographical narrative. |