IMC 2024: Sessions
Session 108: Landscapes of Sanctity, I
Monday 1 July 2024, 11:15-12:45
| Sponsor: | AHRC Project 'Liturgical & Literary Landscapes' |
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| Organiser: | Sarah Bowden, Department of Languages, Literatures & Cultures, King's College London |
| Moderator/Chair: | Sarah Bowden, Department of Languages, Literatures & Cultures, King's College London |
| Paper 108-a | Spatial Liminalities and the Ambiguity of the Sacred in Benedeit's Voyage de saint Brendan (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography and Language and Literature - French or Occitan |
| Paper 108-b | Writing a Holy Land: Constructions of Space and Time in Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, FR 1416 (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - French or Occitan and Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 108-c | Mountains Where God Dwells: Landscapes of Theophany in Late Byzantine Churches (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Religious, Art History - General and Byzantine Studies |
| Abstract | The Landscapes of Sanctity panels, sponsored by the AHRC project 'Liturgical and Literary Landscapes: the cult of St Oswald of Northumbria in the German-speaking world', explore from an interdisciplinary perspective the ways in which the cults of saints are connected to the landscape, both as physical reality and as experienced and constructed in the cultural memory and imagination. Papers consider the ways in which cults change as they move, and how these movements can be traced through texts or material artefacts; how cults leaves traces on landscapes through time (e.g. buildings or settlements); and how these traces and connections are manifest today, both physically and in the cultural imagination. The panels also explore the role and construction of landscape in lives of saints, offer ecocritical readings, and consider how saintly cults are anchored across time in place, i.e. through liturgy. |