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In previous years everyone on the Hagiography Society mailing list has
received a newsletter in late March or April, reminding them of the
annual business meeting and luncheon at Kalamazoo. This year we got so
far behind that the spring newsletter won't be out until after Kalamazoo.
But there WILL be a meeting, as usual, with some important business to
be done, some very good food (far better than the usual Kalamazoo fare)
to be consumed, and a great chance to get together with other people who
are doing research on saint-related subjects.
So please join us if you are interested and able to get there.
Friday, 4 May, 12 noon, Valley I Dining Room. Hagiography Society
Business Meeting with Buffet Luncheon.
In case you're wondering about the practical details, the cost of
the buffet luncheon is $7.95 per person. Unfortunately we can't use meal
tickets for this, but we can accept checks in most currencies, or even
bill you later if you'd rather not pay in cash. And you don't need to
make a reservation in advance.
Besides the luncheon, the Hagiography Society is sponsoring four
very good sessions at Kalamazoo, all organized by Renate Blumenfeld
-Kosinski. In case you've overlooked them in the program so far, here
are the details:
Thursday, 3 May, 1:30 pm, Schneider 1130. Session 100: Early Saints
and Their Reuses in Later Periods I.
Papers: "Keeping the Faith: La Manekine as a Re-Reading
of the Book of Sainte Foy," Linda Marie Rouillard;
"John of Montecorvino and Odoric of Pordenone: Fourteenth-Century
Missionaries Whose Cults were Later Resurrected," James D. Ryan;
"'In Her End is Her Beginning': Agendas and Interpretations in Modern
Retellings of the Life of Brigid of Kildare," Brenna L. Fawley;
"Ecclesiastical and Popular Medievalism in Sabine Baring-Gould's Lives of
St. George," Mary Hayes;
Chair: Sherry Reames.
Thursday, 3 May, 3:30 pm, Schneider 1130. Session 160: Early
Saints and Their Reuses in Later Periods II.
Papers: "Invention and Integration in Saints' Cults in Medieval England,"
John R. Black;
"From Holy Hermit to Royal Cistercian: The Changing Face of St.
Kentigern," Cynthia Whiddon Green;
"Recycling the Desert Fathers in Devotio Moderna Biographies," Mathilde
van Dijk;
"Cosimo de' Medici and His Saints: Myth, Ritual, and Orthodoxy at San
Marco," Catherine Lawless.
Chair: George Ferzoco.
Friday, 4 May, 1:30 pm, Valley I 108. Session 267: Miracles and Social
Status.
Papers: "Weighing the Risk: Social Status and the Telling of
Miracle Stories at Canterbury," Rachel Koopmans;
"Honor, Anonymity, and Humility in Late Medieval Bavarian Miracles,"
Steven D. Sargent;
"‘Thou schalt come to thi degre': The Mediation of Status in Marian
Miracles," Demorah Hayes.
Chair: Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski.
Friday, 4 May, 3:30 pm, Valley I 108. Session 321: Landscapes of
Sanctity.
Papers: "The Vow of ‘stude steađeluestnesse': Topographical
Considerations in the Anchoritic Lifestyle," Michelle M. Sauer;
"Discursive Landscape and the Hagiography of Michael the Archangel," John
Charles Arnold;
"Near Eastern Sacred Landscapes," Josef W. Meri.
Chair: John Howe.
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