Double session at the IMC Leeds

We warmly invite you to attend a double session entitled Denying and Undermining Sainthood in the Middle Ages organised by RECOGNISING-SAINS at the International Medieval Congress in Leeds on Thursday 9 July, from 9.00 to 12.45. The detailed programme below.

Session I

Session: 1504 Maurice Keyworth Building: 1.32

Title: DENYING AND UNDERMINING SAINTHOOD IN THE MIDDLE AGES, I

Sponsor: ‘RECOGNISING SAINTS in the High Middle Ages: Local & Papal
Formalisation of Cults Reconsidered’, Narodowe Centrum Nauki, Poland

Organiser: Grzegorz Pac, Wydział Historii, Uniwersytet Warszawski

Moderator: Gábor Klaniczay, Department of Historical Studies, Central European
University, Budapest/Wien

1504-a: From Theodore to Mark: Replacing a Patron Saint and Forging
Venice’s Identity (Language: English)
Filippo Forlani, Dipartimento di Storia della Chiesa, Pontificia Università
della Santa Croce, Roma

1504-b: The ‘Unworthy Abbot’: The Case of Pons of Melgueil and the
Veneration of Cluny’s Abbots – Or the Lack Thereof (Language:
English)
Cezary Jasiński, Szkola Doktorska Nauk Humanistycznych, Uniwersytet
Warszawski

1504-c: Denying Sainthood?: Failed Canonisation Investigations in the
13th Century (Language: English)
Grzegorz Pac, Wydział Historii, Uniwersytet Warszawski

 

Session II

Session: 1604 Maurice Keyworth Building: 1.32

Title: DENYING AND UNDERMINING SAINTHOOD IN THE MIDDLE AGES, II

Sponsor: ‘RECOGNISING SAINTS in the High Middle Ages: Local & Papal
Formalisation of Cults Reconsidered’, Narodowe Centrum Nauki, Poland

Organiser: Grzegorz Pac, Wydział Historii, Uniwersytet Warszawski

Moderator: Sari Katajala-Peltomaa, Department of Cultural History, University of
Turku

1604-a: The Uncanonised Saint: The Case of Joachim of Fiore (Language:
English)
Massimo Bidotti, Università eCampus

1604-b: Unholy Feast: The Consumption of Jesus’ Foreskin as a Barrier
to Sainthood (Language: English)
James White, Department of History, Classics & Religion, University of
Alberta

1604-c: Endorsing or Undermining Sainthood?: The Case of Medieval
Devil’s Letters (Language: English)
Gabriele Bonomelli, Wydział Historii, Uniwersytet Warszawski