IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 819: Networks and Entanglements in the Cult of Saints
Tuesday 4 July 2023, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | Marco Institute for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, University of Tennessee, Knoxville / Hagiography Society / Episcopus: Society for the Study of Bishops & Secular Clergy in the Middle Ages |
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| Organisers: | Samantha Kahn Herrick, Department of History, Syracuse University, New York Lauren L. Whitnah, Marco Institute for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, University of Tennessee, Knoxville |
| Moderator/Chair: | Courtney Luckhardt, Department of History, University of Southern Mississippi |
| Paper 819-a | Networks of Northumbrian Saints in the 12th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Liturgy |
| Paper 819-b | Martyrdom, Memory, and Reform: The Hirsau Network and Crusader Saints in the 12th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Hagiography |
| Paper 819-c | Lazarus, Medieval Autun, and the Crusades (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Hagiography |
| Paper 819-d | Narrative Networks and Entanglements in Apostolic Hagiography (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Language and Literature - Latin |
| Abstract | This session explores some of the ways veneration of saints in medieval Europe relied on existing networks and, in turn, created new webs of devotional interaction. Hagiographers adapted narrative conventions to their own needs and thus created a tangle of overlapping stories: ties linking communities enabled those stories to circulate. Relics and pilgrims traveled along connected geographical routes linking sacred sites. Liturgy brought together the many saints venerated by individual communities. Considering all these practices of devotion through the lens of networks, these papers provide new insight into liturgical connections, narrative interdependencies, and material entanglements in the cults of saints. |