IMC 2023: Sessions

Session 1537: Searching for Health and the Holy, I: Saints and Pilgrims

Thursday 6 July 2023, 09.00-10.30

Sponsor:	Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Reading
Organiser:	Ruth Salter, Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Reading
Moderator/Chair:	Caroline Bourne, Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Reading
Paper 1537-a	William of Malmesbury's Pilgrimages?: Travels, Miracles, and Religious Networks in the Early 12th Century (Language: English) Ming Liu, School of History, Classics & Archaeology, University of Edinburgh Index terms: Hagiography, Historiography - Medieval, Monasticism
Paper 1537-b	St Michael's Angelic Interactions: Signs of Sanctity and Pilgrimage through the Landscape (Language: English) Tracey Silvester, Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Reading Index terms: Art History - General, Geography and Settlement Studies, Lay Piety, Liturgy
Paper 1537-c	Using the Power of Network Analysis to Identify Networks of Power in the Liber Eliensis (Language: English) Ian Styler, Department of History, University of Birmingham Index terms: Computing in Medieval Studies, Ecclesiastical History, Hagiography, Monasticism
Abstract	The two 'Searching for Health and the Holy' panels seek to consider the ways in which connections could be built, and blurred, and what this meant in terms of understanding and experiencing the saintly and the prophetic. This first panel focuses on saints and pilgrimage, considering aspects of travel (both monastic and lay), the landscape, and the networks that developed both between saintly figures and between religious institutions.