23/04/2013
An international conference Models of Virtues. The Role of Virtues in Sermons and Hagiography for New Saints' Cults (13th-15th centuries) took place at the University of Porto on March 22-23, 2013.
The meeting addressed the role of the theories on virtues within the discourse and cult of new saints. The conference has raised the problem of studying the relationship between communication and devotion to saints during the period from the thirteenth to the fifteenth century, a period that saw the affirmation of the new mendicant orders. It was in this period that preachers and hagiographers started to present holiness not as a result of saints’ miracles, but of their virtues. The conference focused mainly on the study of two types of sources: hagiography and sermon literature. In particular, the conference approached the two sources simultaneously, exploring a series of questions on the construction and dissemination of the image of a given saint. Presentations considered specific questions, with the ultimate goal of identifying the techniques and messages contained in hagiography and in sermones de sanctis to spread the new devotion to a saint, and/or to encourage or promote a person’s canonization.
The members of Budapest team of the project, Stanislava Kuzmová and Ottó Gecser, were invited to present their research concerning the dissemination of two new cults of the period in question, St. Stanislaus of Krakow and St. Elizabeth of Hungary/Thuringia.
More information on the conference, the programme and the abstracts of the papers are available here: http://ifilosofia.up.pt/gfm/?p=activities&a=ver&id=424
File attachments:
