Beyond Delooz: Sanctity Individual and Corporate
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Hagiography Society
Organizer Name
Barbara Zimbalist
Organizer Affiliation
Univ. of Texas-El Paso
Presider Name
Janine Larmon Peterson
Presider Affiliation
Marist College
Paper Title 1
The Formulation of Female Holiness and Masculine Integrity: An Examination of Lutgard of Aywières and Jacques de Vitry
Presenter 1 Name
Lydia Walker
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Univ. of Tennessee-Knoxville
Paper Title 2
"Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear": Pierre Delooz’s True/Constructed Paradigm of Sanctity and the Life of Catherine of Siena
Presenter 2 Name
Mac K. L. Milmine
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Texas Tech Univ.
Paper Title 3
Beyond, Behind, and In Between: Intersectionality and Sanctity after Delooz
Presenter 3 Name
Barbara Zimbalist
Start Date
12-5-2018 1:30 PM
Session Location
Schneider 1275
Description
Sanctity, as Pierre Delooz argued long ago, is a collaborative construct. Yet just as all saints are constructed by a community, to use his classic formulation, they also function as individual exemplars of a sanctity uniquely situated within a nexus of localized, gendered, and politicized concerns. This panel seeks new work on the intersectional nature of of sanctity—specifically, on the relationship between individual and corporate sanctity. It invites papers to reconsider Delooz’ influential formulation of constructed sanctity by interrogating the very nature of that construction in different contexts of sanctity and cultures of holiness. It asks: who or what constructs a saint, and how does that construction balance and encompass both individual and corporate concerns? How does individual subjectivity—of the saint and/or the community member—intersect with its collaborative construction? What is the relationship between collective memory and individual subjectivity? How do the texts and literature that codify sanctity reflect, generate, and even instantiate both the collaborative construction of the saint as well as an indidividual saint—and to what ends and/or purpose? And finally, how does the materiality and textuality of sanctity seek to construct individual holiness through corporate literacy?
Sara Ritchey
Beyond Delooz: Sanctity Individual and Corporate
Schneider 1275
Sanctity, as Pierre Delooz argued long ago, is a collaborative construct. Yet just as all saints are constructed by a community, to use his classic formulation, they also function as individual exemplars of a sanctity uniquely situated within a nexus of localized, gendered, and politicized concerns. This panel seeks new work on the intersectional nature of of sanctity—specifically, on the relationship between individual and corporate sanctity. It invites papers to reconsider Delooz’ influential formulation of constructed sanctity by interrogating the very nature of that construction in different contexts of sanctity and cultures of holiness. It asks: who or what constructs a saint, and how does that construction balance and encompass both individual and corporate concerns? How does individual subjectivity—of the saint and/or the community member—intersect with its collaborative construction? What is the relationship between collective memory and individual subjectivity? How do the texts and literature that codify sanctity reflect, generate, and even instantiate both the collaborative construction of the saint as well as an indidividual saint—and to what ends and/or purpose? And finally, how does the materiality and textuality of sanctity seek to construct individual holiness through corporate literacy?
Sara Ritchey