Date:
May 27, 2010 - 09:30 - May 30, 2010 - 17:00
Event location:
Event type:
Conference
Event audience:
Private SAINTLY BISHOPS AND BISHOPS' SAINTS
A symposium co-organized
by
the Croatian Hagiography Association “Hagiotheca”
and
International Hagiography Society
Poreč, Episcopal Palace
Croatia
Programme
Wednesday 26
Welcome reception, Hotel “Luna“ (20:00)
Thursday 27
Registration (9:30 – 10:30)
Opening remarks (10:30 – 11:30)
• Ott, John S. “Between Earth and Heaven: Saintly Bishops and Bishops' Saints in Medieval Christendom“
Morning session (11:30 – 13:00)
Model of holy bishops
• Sághy, Marianne. “Holy Bishops in Fourth-Century Rome”
• Beard, John Marcus. “Public Displays of Asceticism: Holy Bishops and the Conversion of Gaul in the Vita Sancti Martini”
• Chai-Elsholz, Raeleen. “Bishops, Saints and Servitude”
Lunch break (13:00 – 16:00)
Afternoon
• Matejčić, Ivan. “La cattedrale di Parenzo e il culto di San Mauro” (16:00)
• Euphrasian basilica & episcopal complex, guidance Ivan Matejčić (17:00)
• Book launch: Identity and Alterity in Hagiography and the Cult of Saints (18:00)
Friday 28
Morning session (9.30 – 13.30)
Holy Bishops in the West
• Anderson, Rachel S. “A Mutually Beneficial Alliance: The Bishop Saint Æthelwold and Queen Ælfthryth of England”
• Ott, John S. “Episcopal Sanctity in the Archdiocese of Reims, 1050-1150”
• Reames, Sherry. “Popular Images of Saintly Bishops in Late Medieval England“
Coffee break
Critique of bishops
• Bartelen, Monika. “The troubling tale of the life and death of Archbishop Engelbert of Cologne”
• Smirnova, Victoria. “No Way to Salvation for German Bishops? The Case of Saint Engelbert of Cologne”
Lunch break (13:30 – 15:30)
Afternoon (15:30 – 18:30)
Holy Bishops in the East
• Vuolanto, Ville. “A Self-Made Living Saint? The Case of Theodoret of Cyrrhus’s (d. 466)”
• Efthymiadis, Stephanos. “The Place of Holy and Unholy Bishops in Byzantine Hagiographic Narrative (8th-12th c.)”
Coffee break
Holy Bishops on the Adriatic
• Miladinov, Marina. “Successio apostolica and power relations in Istria in the Age of Justinian and beyond”
• Vedriš, Trpimir. “Saintly bishop without hagiography?: The origins of the cult of Saint Donatus in Zadar“
Saturday 29
Morning session (9:30 – 13.30)
Bishops and saints
• Heffernan, Thomas. “Gender and the Sources of Authority in Augustine's Sermons on Perpetua and Felicity”
• Nixon, Virginia. “Bad Bishops: The Image of the Hostile Bishop in the Late Medieval Northern Lives of Saint Anne”
• Larmon Peterson, Janine. “Episcopal Authority and Disputed Sanctity in Late Medieval Italy”
Coffee break
The power of bishops
• Gatti, Evan. “A Bishop’s Blessing on the Border or In-Between: The Frontispiece in the Benedictional of Engilmar”
• Kuzmová, Stanislava. “The Pastor Bonus Saint Stanislaus of Cracow in Sermons and the Bishop Saints as Exemplars in the Late Middle Ages”
• Katajala-Peltomaa, Sari. ”Bishops Fighting with Demons: Examples of the Nordic Canonization Processes”
Lunch break (13:30 – 15:30)
Afternoon (15.30 – 18.30)
Holy Bishops and abbots
• Defries, David J. “The Master’s Bishop: the Ecclesiology of the Regula Magistri and Its Influence on the Vitae ss. Audomari, Bertini, Winnoci’
• Cuppo, Luciana. “Benedict, father of monks, in the chronicle of Mellitus, bishop of London”
• Gaşpar, Cristian. “Failed Bishop or Perfect Monk? Constructing Models of Sanctity in Canaparius’ Vita of St. Adalbert of Prague [BHL 37]”
Coffee break
Concluding discussion (chaired by Gábor Klaniczay)
Sunday 30
Excursion (9:00- ca. 17:00): Novigrad and medieval fresco cycles in hinterland Istria (guidance by Ivan Matejčić) - with lunch