The Golden Legend and the Standardization of Sanctity
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Hagiography Society
Organizer Name
Courtney Rydel
Organizer Affiliation
Washington College
Presider Name
Courtney Rydel
Paper Title 1
Holy Resistance: Strategies of Dissent in Medieval Hagiography Saint Mary the Egyptian: The Transformative Power of Subversion
Presenter 1 Name
Darrell Estes
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Ohio State Univ.
Paper Title 2
The Legenda aurea and the Devotio Moderna: Imitation and Appropriation
Presenter 2 Name
Mathilde van Dijk
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Rijksuniv. Groningen
Paper Title 3
Holy Magi and Their Star, Textual and Visual Approaches
Presenter 3 Name
Ivan Gerát
Presenter 3 Affiliation
Slovak Academy of Sciences and the Univ. of Trnava
Paper Title 4
Jacobus de Voragine's Saint Euphrosine, de Novo: A Case Study of Saint Catherine of Siena's Youthful Self-Fashioning
Presenter 4 Name
Lisa Vitale
Presenter 4 Affiliation
Southern Connecticut State Univ.
Start Date
May 2018
Session Location
Schneider 1275
Description
The Golden Legend and the Standardization of Sanctity
On the occasion of the 720th obit anniversary of Jacobus de Varagine (d. 1298), this panel will engage multiple threads of inquiry surrounding his production of The Golden Legend. In particular, we wish to examine how the compilation affected hagiographic practice and saintly representation. For an interdisciplinary panel that will involve discussion of manuscripts, texts, liturgy, and artistic programs, we ask: how did The Golden Legend shape models of individual saints and of late medieval sanctity more generally? Can we detect moments of resistance to hagiographic standardization? How does the political, religious, and cultural context of Jacobus’s world in thirteenth-century Liguria shape our understanding of his compilational logic?
Sara Ritchey
The Golden Legend and the Standardization of Sanctity
Schneider 1275
The Golden Legend and the Standardization of Sanctity
On the occasion of the 720th obit anniversary of Jacobus de Varagine (d. 1298), this panel will engage multiple threads of inquiry surrounding his production of The Golden Legend. In particular, we wish to examine how the compilation affected hagiographic practice and saintly representation. For an interdisciplinary panel that will involve discussion of manuscripts, texts, liturgy, and artistic programs, we ask: how did The Golden Legend shape models of individual saints and of late medieval sanctity more generally? Can we detect moments of resistance to hagiographic standardization? How does the political, religious, and cultural context of Jacobus’s world in thirteenth-century Liguria shape our understanding of his compilational logic?
Sara Ritchey