Saints for All Occasions

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Hagiography Society

Organizer Name

Sara Ritchey

Organizer Affiliation

Univ. of Louisiana-Lafayette

Presider Name

Mary Morse

Presider Affiliation

Rider Univ.

Paper Title 1

Rewriting the Life of a Saint: The Augustinian Order and the Creation of a New Augustine: Between Texts, Images, and Polemics

Presenter 1 Name

Alessandro Cosma

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Univ. degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza"

Paper Title 2

The Text in the Saint and the Saint in the Text

Presenter 2 Name

Boncho Dragiyski

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Duquesne Univ.

Paper Title 3

John Mirk and Osbern Bokenham's Lives of Mary Magdalene: Context and Authority

Presenter 3 Name

Juliette Vuille

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Univ. de Genève

Paper Title 4

The Biochemical "Lives" of Saint Edmund

Presenter 4 Name

Donna Beth Ellard

Presenter 4 Affiliation

Rice Univ.

Start Date

8-5-2014 10:00 AM

Session Location

Fetzer 2040

Description

Saints’ Lives are written for many reasons. This panel consists of four speakers whose research explores how polemic, devotion, economics, canonization, the arrival of relics, or the experience of miracle may have led to the composition of saints’ "Lives" and substantially shaped the content of those narratives. We look for papers attentive to "Lives" whose compositional contexts have been misunderstood or insufficiently appreciated, and for clarificats that affect our understanding of immediate context, cult history, and hagiographical studies.

Sara M. Ritchey