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If you've been intrigued by reading about the wonderful mosaics in the Eufrasius Cathedral at Porec, you may be interested in the upcoming symposium at Porec on "Saintly bishops and bishops' saints". Here's the CFP (from a recent Hagiography Society newsletter):
This symposium, co-organized by the Croatian Hagiography Association (Hagiotheca) and the Hagiography Society, will be held 27-30 May 2010 in Porec, Croatia (ancient Parentium)-- a very appropriate venue because it's the site of the magnificent Euphrasian Basilica, built by a 6th-century bishop, and a historic episcopal complex. (For some enticing views of the site, see http://www.istra.hr/porec/en ).
This symposium is intended to focus on both bishops as the objects of cults and/or hagiography and bishops as the agents in the making of cults and/or hagiography. The final aim is to shed light on the relations between the two.
The first proposed direction of research is therefore to examine the development of the cult and hagiography of holy bishops, and the second, to examine the role of bishops in the promotion, suppression, interpretation, etc., of the cult of the saints in general. The topic fits into the broader stream of research on the diverse and changing roles of bishops in Mediterranean and European societies (including the Orthodox East) in Late Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Early Modern period. The chronological framework is meant to cover the period ca. 300-1600 AD– that is, from the emergence of the cult of the first Christian bishop-martyrs to the promotion of Post-Tridentine saintly bishops.
How did particular contexts as well as the development of the role of the bishop affect the cults and hagiography? The ambiguity of the title is meant to trigger diverse associations and invite different topical and methodological approaches. Thus possible topics include, but are not limited to
• models and constructs of episcopal sainthood,
• holy bishops and civic identity/memory,
• bishops in local hagiography and liturgy,
• the figure of a non-saintly bishop in hagiography,
• iconography of holy bishops,
• holy bishops' tombs– translations, miracles, architecture,
• bishops and female sanctity,
• bishops and lay sanctity,
• saintly friar-bishops between their two communities
The deadline for paper proposals is 30 October 2009. Proposals should include an abstract (300 words maximum) and your current position and contact address, and should be sent to [log in to unmask] ; the contact person is Trpimir Vedriš.
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