IMC 2024: Sessions
Session 308: Landscapes of Sanctity, III
Monday 1 July 2024, 16:30-18:00
| Sponsor: | AHRC Project 'Liturgical & Literary Landscapes' |
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| Organiser: | Sarah Bowden, Department of Languages, Literatures & Cultures, King's College London |
| Moderator/Chair: | Leonie V. Hicks, School of Humanities & Educational Studies, Canterbury Christ Church University |
| Paper 308-a | Location, Location, Location: Transformed Land in the Miracula Walburgis (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography and Language and Literature - Latin |
| Paper 308-b | Back to the Future: Time Travel in Liturgies and Landscapes (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography and Liturgy |
| Paper 308-c | Displaced Landscapes: St Oswald in Germany (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography and Language and Literature - German |
| 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. |