IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 206: Punitive Miracles in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, II
Monday 3 July 2023, 14.15-15.45
| 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/Chairs: | David Hunter, Department of Modern & Classical Languages, Literatures & Cultures, University of Kentucky Bryan Ward-Perkins, Faculty of History, University of Oxford |
| Paper 206-a | Punitive Miracles of the Child Jesus: What Does the Textual Transmission of the Infancy Gospel of Thomas tell us? (Language: English) Index terms: Biblical Studies, Language and Literature - Greek, Theology |
| Paper 206-b | The Grotesque Body in Hell and in Punitive Miracles Stories in the Byzantine Hagiographical Literature (Language: English) Index terms: Anthropology, Byzantine Studies, Hagiography, Language and Literature - Greek |
| Paper 206-c | Punishing Magicians through Miracles: The Motif of Trial by Fire in Greek Hagiography (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Hagiography, Language and Literature - Greek |
| 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 from hagiography and other types of Christian literature, Session II will focus on who was punished, why and how. |