IMC 2023: Sessions

Session 1220: Networks of Sanctity, I: Saints Textual - Saintly Networks in Religious and Devotional Texts

Organiser:	Edmund van der Molen, Department of History, University of Nottingham
Moderator/Chair:	Edmund van der Molen, Department of History, University of Nottingham
Paper 1220-a	Thus Said Niall the Deacon: The Function of Holy Saintly Figures in Old English Apocalyptic Homilies (Language: English) William Beattie, Medieval Institute, University of Notre Dame, Indiana Index terms: Hagiography, Sermons and Preaching
Paper 1220-b	Saint versus Saint: Friendship and Rivalry in Medieval Miracle Collections (Language: English) Kara Kersh, Department of History, Trinity College Dublin Index terms: Hagiography, Sermons and Preaching
Paper 1220-c	Networks of Sanctity in Ælfric of Eynsham's Temporale Homilies (Language: English) Aaron J. Kleist, Department of English, Biola University, California Index terms: Hagiography, Language and Literature - Old English, Sermons and Preaching
Abstract	This session considers the networks that are created between saints and saintly figures within religious and devotional texts from 1000-1500. Many hagiographies, miracles and sermons feature saints crossing paths with other saints, for support, instruction, or as proof of sanctity. This session will consider how we can categorise these relationships, and what they tell us about the functions and roles of saints within devotional literature.