Date:
July 1, 2013 - 09:00 - July 4, 2013 - 18:00
Event type:
Conference
Event audience:
Open to the Public Four sessions present the results and questions of our project:
Symbolic Identity and the Cultural Memory of Saints, I: Saints Switching Regions (Session 1106)
Wednesday 3 July 2013: 11.15-12.45
Moderator/Chair: Ian N. Wood, School of History, University of Leeds
Marina Miladinov (Theological Faculty 'Matthias Flacius Illyricus', University of Zagreb): The Legend by Gumpold of Mantua: St Wenceslas Earning a Cult in the Holy Roman Empire
Cristian Gaspar (Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest): Vita Romana or Vita Aquensis?: Recovering the Context of the First Life of St Adalbert of Prague
Gábor Klaniczay (Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest): Local Holy Rulers and International Saintly Princesses: The Fortune of Hungarian Dynastic Saints outside Hungary
Symbolic Identity and the Cultural Memory of Saints, II: Saints and Regions (Session 1504)
Thursday 4 July 2013: 09.00-10.30
Moderator/Chair: Nils Holger Petersen, Centre for the Study of the Cultural Heritage of Medieval Rituals, Københavns Universitet
Gerhard Jaritz (Institut für Realienkunde, Krems / Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest): Saints Entering Our Region - Our Region Entering Saintly Space: The Example of Late Medieval Central European Visual Images
Anu Mänd (Institute of History, University of Tallinn): Merchants and Military Saints in Medieval Livonia
Martin Wangsgaard Jürgensen (Nationalmuseet, København): One of Us: Depictions of Regional Saints in Danish Medieval Wall Painting
Thursday 4 July 2013: 11.15-12.45
Moderator/Chair: Anu Mänd, Institute of History, University of Tallinn
Kateřina Horníčková (Institut für Realienkunde des Mittelalters und der frühen Neuzeit, Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Mittelalterstudien (IZMS), Universität Salzburg): Martyrs of 'Our' Faith: Community Identities and the Cult of the Bohemian Martyrs in Post-Hussite Bohemia
Tiina Kala (Department of History, University of Tallinn / Tallinna Linnaarhiiv): Interaction of Regional and Transregional Traditions in Saints' Cult on the Example of a Dominican Calendar from Late Medieval Tallinn
CANCELLED Tracey R. Sands (Centre for the Study of the Cultural Heritage of Medieval Rituals, Københavns Universitet): Big Players on Small Stages: Localizing International Saints Through Narrative
Thursday 4 July 2013: 14.15-15.45
Moderator/Chair: Sebastian Ernesto Salvado, Institutt for historie og klassiske fag, Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskapelige Universitet, Trondheim
Roman Hankeln (Institutt for historie og klassiske fag, Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskapelige Universitet, Trondheim): Earthly Pain, Heavenly Pleasure: Musical Reflections of Joy in Medieval Saints' Offices
Stanislava Kuzmová (Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest): Prophets in Their Own Countries?: Sermon Literature and Preaching Practice on Local, 'Central European' Saints in the Late Middle Ages
Nils Holger Petersen (Centre for the Study of the Cultural Heritage of Medieval Rituals, Københavns Universitet): St Knud Lavard in Medieval Liturgy, Drama, and Song
In addition, other project members will present their papers in other sessions:
Ildikó Csepregi (Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest) on The Status of Miracles in Central European Saint's Lives in Session 804, Between Entertainment and Persuasion: On Structures and Functions of Miracle Accounts and Collections, II
Sebastian Ernesto Salvado (Institutt for historie og klassiske fag, Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskapelige Universitet, Trondheim) on Shaping Image through Sound: The Liturgical Portrait of Frederick I Barbarossa’s Charlemagne in Session 621, Charlemagne in Latin, II: Charlemagne as King and Emperor
Béla Zsolt Szakács (Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest) on Prohibited Pleasures?: Successful and Unsuccessful Temptations Represented in 14th-Century Miniatures in Session 515, Gazing - or, the Pleasures of the Eye