CONGRESS CANCELED Witnessing the Canonization Process
Description
Scholars regularly plumb vitae about holy people for insights into medieval religion and culture. Relatively fewer, however, have focused their research principally on the processes of canonization that precede an attempted canonization. This panel of three papers followed by a brief respondent will focus on the processes of canonization. Appropriate topics for the panel include, but are not limited to the specific roles canonization commissioners and notaries played; how witnesses were chosen; the extent to which canonization inquests adhered to the evolving canonization rules; how and why witnesses’ testimonies were adapted, omitted or contradicted in later vitae; patterns evident across multiple canonization inquests; and how dossiers based on witness testimonies were assembled and forwarded to the curia for further review. Barbara Zimbalist
CONGRESS CANCELED Witnessing the Canonization Process
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Scholars regularly plumb vitae about holy people for insights into medieval religion and culture. Relatively fewer, however, have focused their research principally on the processes of canonization that precede an attempted canonization. This panel of three papers followed by a brief respondent will focus on the processes of canonization. Appropriate topics for the panel include, but are not limited to the specific roles canonization commissioners and notaries played; how witnesses were chosen; the extent to which canonization inquests adhered to the evolving canonization rules; how and why witnesses’ testimonies were adapted, omitted or contradicted in later vitae; patterns evident across multiple canonization inquests; and how dossiers based on witness testimonies were assembled and forwarded to the curia for further review. Barbara Zimbalist