Early Medieval Hagiography

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Special Session

Organizer Name

Kelly Gibson

Organizer Affiliation

Univ. of Dallas

Presider Name

Kelly Gibson

Paper Title 1

Unum ex Profetis: The Motif of Old Testament Prophet in the Life of Saint Martin by Sulpicius Severus

Presenter 1 Name

Peter B. Mottola

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Catholic Univ. of America

Paper Title 2

Forgery and Memory in a Carolingian Saint's Life

Presenter 2 Name

John B. Wickstrom

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Western Michigan Univ.

Paper Title 3

Keeping a True Lent in Notker's Gesta Karoli magni

Presenter 3 Name

Patrick Rory Callahan

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Fordham Univ.

Start Date

16-5-2015 10:00 AM

Session Location

Schneider 1350

Description

This session's three papers, ranging from Late Antiquity to the Carolingian era, explore hagiography's sources, uses of the past, and relationship with other genres. Peter B. Mottola examines the influence of Scripture on Sulpicius Severus’s depiction of Saint Martin through comparison of Saint Martin with Old Testament prophets Elijah and Elisha. John B. Wickstrom investigates the memories of the Merovingian past in Odo of Glanfeuil’s Life of Saint Maurus, produced in the mid-860s. Patrick Rory Callahan links the Lenten motifs in Notker’s Gesta Karoli Magni to the hagiographic tradition in which Notker was immersed and also connects the Lenten lessons of Notker’s work to the political and regulatory use made by the Carolingians of Lent.

Description by Kelly Gibson.