IMC Leeds 2023 (July 3-6)
Session 1532
Session Time: Thursday, 06 July 2023, 9.00-10.30
Title: Networks & Entanglements in Nordic Hagiography I
Abstract: This panel explores the ways in which hagiography played important parts in political and administrative events in the medieval Nordic realm.
Sponsor: The Norse Hagiography Network
Organiser: Tiffany Nicole White, University of California, Berkeley; Natasha Bradley, Lincoln College, University of Oxford
Moderator/Chair: Tiffany Nicole White
Paper -a The Role of Óláfsríma in the Canonization of Bishop Guðmundr Arason (Language: English)
Speaker: Joshua E. Harris, Indiana University, Department of Germanic Studies
Paper -b Twisted Thorns: The Ideological Potential of a Special Relic (Language: English)
Speaker: Dr Sabine Heidi Walther, University of Bonn
Paper -c Canine Tears and Hagiographic Entanglements in Oddr Snorrason’s Saga Óláfs TryggvasonarCanine Tears and Hagiographic Entanglements in Oddr Snorrason’s Saga Óláfs Tryggvasonar (Language: English)
Speaker: Timothy Bourns, School of European Languages, Culture & Society, University College London
Session 1632
Session Time: Thursday, 06 July 2023, 11.15-12.45
Title: Networks & Entanglements in Nordic Hagiography II
Abstract: This panel explores the ways in which medieval hagiography in the Nordic realm were adapted and influenced ‘secular’ literature.
Sponsor: The Norse Hagiography Network
Organiser: Tiffany Nicole White, University of California, Berkeley; Natasha Bradley, Lincoln College, University of Oxford
Moderator/Chair: Natasha Bradley
Paper -a Liberal Learning in Páls saga postola (Language: English)
Speaker: David Bond West, Lincoln College, University of Oxford
Paper -b Manifestations of the Secular in Norse Hagiography (Language: English)
Speaker: Dr Haraldur Hreinsson
Paper -c Empress and Saint Helena in Medieval and Post-Medieval Icelandic Verse (Language: English)
Speaker: Professor Natalie Van Deusen, University of Alberta
IMC Leeds 2022 (July 4-7)
Session 1029
Session Time: Wednesday, 6 July 2022, 9.00-10.30
Title: Borderless Sainthood in Medieval Nordic Hagiography, I: Reception and Adaptation
Abstract: This panel highlights the reception and adaptation of Non-Nordic saints’ vitae material in the medieval and Early Modern Nordic region, both in prose and poetry.
Sponsor: The Norse Hagiography Network
Organiser: Tiffany Nicole White, Department of Scandinavian, University of California, Berkeley
Moderator/Chair: Tiffany Nicole White
Paper -a (Sea-)Stranding and Thematic Unity in Adreas Saga Postola I (Language: English)
Speaker: Eugenia Kristina Vorobeva, Jesus College, University of Oxford
Paper –b The Cult and Hagiography of St Ambrose of Milan in Medieval Iceland (Language: English)
Speaker: Davide Salmoiraghi, Girton College, University of Cambridge
Paper-c ‘ Eue þydiz upp i uárt maal eymd edr ue’ (‘Eve signifies in our language misery and woe’): The Presentation of Eve in the Fall Story of Stjórn I (Language: English)
Speaker:Natasha Bradley, Lincoln College, University of Oxford
Session 1129
Session Time: Wednesday, 6 July 2022, 11.15-12.45
Title: Borderless Sainthood in Medieval Nordic Hagiography, II: Sources
Abstract: This panel addresses sources (outside of the traditional vitae) that indicate the presence of cults of non-Nordic saints in the medieval Nordic region. Sources include secular texts, wills, mentions of feast days, and more.
Sponsor: The Norse Hagiography Network
Organiser: Tiffany Nicole White, Department of Scandinavian, University of California, Berkeley
Moderator/Chair: Tiffany Nicole White
Paper -a Voyaging Saints from Ireland to Scandinavia: Columba and Brendan the Navigator (Language: English)
Speaker: Courtney Selvage, Irish & Celtic Studies Research Institute, Ulster University
Paper –b A Testament to the Saints: Wills in Late Medieval Iceland (Language: English)
Speaker: Ryder Patzuk-Russell, Faculty of Icelandic & Comparative Cultural Studies, University of Iceland, Reykjavík
Paper-c From Tournai to Trondheim: Flemish Saints in Danish and Norwegian Manuscripts (Language: English)
Speaker: Synnøve Midtbø Myking, Institutt for linvstiske, litterære og estetiske studier, Universitetet i Bergen
Paper-d The Twelve Apostles as a Group in Medieval Iceland: A Study of the Codex Scardensis and its sources (Language: English)
Speaker: Christelle Fairise, Laboratoire d’Etudes sur les Monothéismes (LEM – UMR 8584), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris
IMC Leeds 2021 (Online, July 5-9)
Session 707
Session Time: Tuesday, 6 July 2021, 14.15-15.45
Title: Female Saints in the Nordic Region
Abstract: This panel addresses several understudied female vitae, both in prose and verse, that are extant in the Old Norse-Icelandic corpus. The main focus throughout is the Icelandicization of non-Icelandic saints, both in hagiographic material and so-called secular literature.
Sponsor: The Norse Hagiography Network
Organiser: Tiffany White, Department of Scandinavian, University of California, Berkeley
Moderator/Chair: Ermengilda R. Müller, University of Iceland
Paper -a The Saints of Heilagra meyja drápa and Their Cult in Medieval Iceland (Language: English)
Speaker: Ermenegilda Rachel Müller, Faculty of Icelandic & Comparative Cultural Studies, University of Iceland, Reykjavík
Paper –b Guðrún Ósvífrsdóttir and the Penitent Woman Saints: Overlap, Influence, and Function (Language: English)
Speaker: Natalie van Deusen, Department of Modern Languages & Cultural Studies, University of Alberta
Paper-c The Saint and the Sea: St Ursula and Female Migration in Pre-Modern Icelandic Literature (Language: English)
Speaker: Katelin Marit Parsons, Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, Reykjavík
IMC Leeds 2020 CFP [cancelled due to Covid-19]
Borderless sainthood: Medieval Nordic Hagiography
Saints known and venerated in the medieval North Atlantic were often not local. Many saints from Europe had flourishing cults within Scandinavia and the North Atlantic. Hagiographic texts that were translated into Old Norse were often adaptations, giving us a unique picture of the reception and development of the cults of the saints. This stream will highlight the importance of non-Nordic saints in Scandinavia. Papers may focus on texts, artifacts, relics, church dedications and so on as evidence of veneration. As we will be celebrating the 850th anniversary of St Thomas of Becket’s death in 2020, we particularly encourage proposals on Thomas of Becket in the Nordic region.
IMC Leeds 2019 (July 1–4)
Session 1149
Session time: Wednesday, 3 July 2019, 11.15-12.45
Title: Material Remnants of Sainthood in the Nordic Middle Ages
Sponsor: The Norse Hagiography Network
Organiser: Tiffany White, Department of Scandinavian, University of California, Berkeley
Moderator/Chair: Kimberley-Joy Knight
Paper -a ‘Úr úlfs munni’: The Religious Context of Bishop Páll Jónsson’s Crosier (Language: English)
Speaker: Haraldur Hreinsson
Paper -b Material Magdalenes: Representations of St Mary Magdalene in the North, c. 1250-1550 (Language: English)
Speaker: Ragnhild Marthine Bø
Paper -c Saints and Seals of the Icelandic Dioceses of Hólar and Skálholt (Language: English)
Speaker: Guðrún Harðardóttir
Paper -d Lanfranc of Canterbury’s adventures in Iceland: A study of AM 567a-b 4to and its sources (Language: English)
Speaker: Kimberley-Joy Knight
Session 1349
Session time: Wednesday, 3 July 2019, 16.30-18.00
Title: Nordic Hagiography: Objects as Texts/Texts as Objects
Sponsor: The Norse Hagiography Network
Organiser: Tiffany White, Department of Scandinavian, University of California, Berkeley
Moderator/Chair: Tiffany White
Paper -a A Text for Nuns: An Old Icelandic Translation of the Vita Malchi in København, Den Arnamagnæanske Samling, AM 764 4to (Language: English)
Speaker: Daria Segal
Paper -b The Body and the Book: On Icelandic Manuscripts of the Passio of St Margaret (Language: English)
Speaker: Ásdís Egilsdóttir
Paper -c Hellish Things: Heightened Materiality in Duggals Leiðsla and Visio Tnugdali (Language: English)
Speaker: Isobel Boles