IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 817: Cultural and Religious Networks in Medieval Iberia, IV: Making Martyrs in Liturgy and Hagiography
Tuesday 4 July 2023, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | University of Bristol / Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen |
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| Organiser: | Kati Ihnat, Afdeling Geschiedenis, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen |
| Moderator/Chair: | Rebecca Maloy, College of Music, University of Colorado, Boulder |
| Paper 817-a | Martyrs by Numbers: Mining the Liturgical Commons (Language: English) Index terms: Liturgy, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Music |
| Paper 817-b | Death of a Martyr: Violence and Suffering in Liturgy and Hagiography (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Liturgy, Religious Life |
| Paper 817-c | Martyrs in al-Andalus: The Evidence from the Cordoban Calendar (Language: English) Index terms: Islamic and Arabic Studies, Liturgy, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Abstract | The repertoire of saints in early medieval Iberia was heavily dominated by martyrs. Contrary to other areas of Western Christendom, where new saints - ascetics and confessors - were fairly quickly venerated, in Iberia martyrs remained the predominant type of saint commemorated in the liturgy and written about in hagiography, into the 11th century. This session will examine the many forms in which the veneration of martyrs took place across Iberia, through a number of different sources. We will look at how martyrs were constructed in music, through study of the commons for martyrs (Shaffer), through examination of themes of death and suffering in liturgy and hagiography (Ihnat), and through the celebration of martyrs in al-Andalus as attested by the few surviving sources from that area (Hoijinck). By analysing the construction of martyrs in commemorative sources, we will seek ultimately to understand what communities were looking for in their saints, and how they related to them. |