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Hello All:
I am writing to solicit paper proposals for two sessions at the Internation Medieval Congress, Kalamazoo, for May 2004. Below is an overview of the sessions, which are focused on the English cult of the saints, 650-1550. My co-organizer and I are particularly eager to have papers that focus on both early and late cults, as well as ones that approach the subject from various theoretical and/or disciplinary perspectives. Proposals are due by 15 September and may be sent (via e-mail
preferably) to me or to Rich Johnson (addresses below).
Thanks, Virginia
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The Formation and Definition of Saints's Cults in Medieval
England, 650-1550
(2 sessions)
As Michael Lapidge has pointed out in his study of the cult of St.
Aethelwold, the process of canonization of a saint and the
development of a formal liturgical celebration of that saint on an
appointed day in the early Middle Ages was a "much less formal
affair than it was to become in later centuries" (cxii). Indeed,
the veneration of native saints in England demonstrates that the
definition of a "saint's cult" was a highly fluid and particularly
flexible enterprise. In both early and late medieval culture, the
definition of "cultus" is complicated by regional devotion, lay
piety, and a groundswell of support for any given saint.
Furthermore, the canonization process implemented by the papal
structure in the twelfth century did not provide the only
authorization for cult status, and a number of cults emerged in
late medieval England that began to imitate (and mutate) forms of
support that had occurred in Anglo-Saxon England.
These two sessions seek to uncover the various ways in which cults
were defined, how these definitions shifted based on place and on
performance (i.e., in liturgy, saints' plays, etc), and to what
degree the cults relied on ecclesiastical sanction. We seek to
discover the various manifestations of cult activity vis-a-vis the
native saints of England, and thus, we encourage papers from a
variety of viewpoints, theoretical positions, and disciplinary focii.
> Virginia Blanton
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> Department of English
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> Cockefair 106
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> University of Missouri-Kansas City
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> Kansas City, MO 64110
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> FAX: 816-235-1308
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> Richard F. Johnson
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> Department of English;
> William Rainey Harper College
> 1200 W. Algonquin Road
> Palatine, IL 60067
> Fax: 847/925-6039
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