Saints, Region, and Community

Sponsoring Organization(s)

EuroCORECODE Project Symbols That Bind and Break Communities, European Science Foundation

Organizer Name

Nils Holger Petersen

Organizer Affiliation

Københavns Univ.

Presider Name

Nils Holger Petersen

Paper Title 1

Saints' Cults in Medieval Central Europe: Rivalries and Alliances

Presenter 1 Name

Gábor Klaniczay

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Central European Univ.

Paper Title 2

Visualizing Ourselves and Our Saints in Central European Mining Communities

Presenter 2 Name

Gerhard Jaritz

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Central European Univ./Institut für Realienkunde des Mittelalters und der frühen Neuzeit, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften

Paper Title 3

Successful Unsuccessful Saints: A Paradox in the Medieval Cult of Saints Illustrated through Danish Examples

Presenter 3 Name

Martin Wangsgaard Jürgensen

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Nationalmuseet

Paper Title 4

Response

Presenter 4 Name

Nikolay Petrov

Presenter 4 Affiliation

St. Petersburg State Univ. of Culture and Arts

Start Date

12-5-2013 8:30 AM

Session Location

Schneider 1125

Description

The session will feature papers from project members of the collaborative research project Symbols that Bind and Break Communities: Saints’ Cults as Stimuli and Expressions of Local, Regional, National and Universalist Identities under the EuroCORECODE programme of the European Science Foundation (2010-2013). This project is a collaboration between groups of scholars from 5 European Universities. The interdisciplinary project investigates the significance of saints in the context of developing regional and trans-regional identities. The approach of the CRP is to a large extent reception historical dealing with changes, revisions or other transformations which have taken place and still take place within individual, local or communal appropriations of transmitted materials from medieval saints’ cults.

Nils H. Petersen