De 22-03-2013 a 23-03-2013
International Meeting
Poster (pdf)
Flyer with Program (pdf)
Program & Abstracts (pdf)
The meeting intends to address the role of the theories on virtues within the discourse and cult of new saints (13th to 15th century). Despite its late medieval institution and development, canonization is not sufficient to determine the success of a new saint’s cult. In fact, cults could remain confined within a limited geographic area or social group and never be celebrated throughout Christendom. In some cases, however, the inclusion in the Catalogus sanctorum marks the commencement or the continuation of a broad and shared devotion. Such devotion, which finds its highest expression in a series of devotional practices, may also reinterpret the figure of the saint and his/her virtues. In fact, each cult may have required an adaptation of these virtues, sometimes to aid its growth if it was not yet well established, and also to keep it fervent and relevant in order to respond to believers’ changing expectations and needs.
The conference will raise the problem of studying the relationship between communication and devotion for the holiness of saints during the period from the thirteenth to the fifteenth century, a period that saw the affirmation of the new mendicant orders. Special attention will be given to specific virtues that were proposed for each saint. It was in this period, in fact, that preachers and hagiographers started to present holiness not as a result of saints’ miracles, but of their virtues. The conference will focus mainly on the study of two types of sources: hagiography and sermon literature (although the study of other sources is not excluded). In particular, the conference seeks to approach the two sources simultaneously sources, these last addressing them a series of questions on the construction and dissemination of the image of a given saint.
Presentations, only by invited speakers, will consider specific questions, with the ultimate goal of identifying the techniques and messages contained in hagiography and in sermones de sanctis to spread the new devotion to a saint, and/or to encourage or promote a person’s canonization.
Advance registration is required: send an email identifying yourself to: gfm-secretariado@letras.up.pt
No fee. Seating is limited, available on a first-come, first-served basis.
22 MARCH
- Sala 203
9h00-9h15 Opening session / Sessão de abertura
Prof. Maria de Fátima Marinho, Diretora Faculdade de Letras
Provincial da Família Franciscana Portuguesa
Representante do Instituto de Estudos Medievais, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Luís Amaral, Centro de Estudos de História Religiosa, UCP
Maria Cristinha Cunha, Centro de Investigação Transdisciplinar “Cultura, Espaço e Memória” - FLUP
José Meirinhos, Instituto de Filosofia, UP
Prof. Maria de Lurdes Correia Fernandes, Vice-Rector of the Universidade do Porto
9h15-10h45
11h00-12h45
14h30-16h30
16h45-18h30
Round Table : Sermons and Hagiography in Medieval Portugal
Mesa redonda: Sermões e Hagiografia no Portugal Medieval
Chair : Zulmira Santos (Universidade do Porto)
23 March
- Sala 203
9h30-11h00
11h15-12h45
14h30- 16h00
16h15 – 17h45
17h45-18h15
Conclusions and Closing session
Conclusões e sessão de encerramento
20h00
Igreja de S. Francisco, Preaching of a Sermon of S. Anthony of Lisboa/Padova
Igreja de S. Francisco, Declamação de excertos de Sermões de S. António
Played by/Intérprete: Júlio Martin da Fonseca
This meeting is part of Eleonora Lombardo's post doc projet Sermons on Saint Anthony of Lisbon: between hagiography and orality (about 1232-1350), ref. SFRH/BPD/70408/2010, supervised by José Mattoso and José Meirinhos, respectively at the Instituto de Estudos Medievais (Lisboa) and the Gabinete de Filosofia Medieval (Porto). The meeting was integrated in the organisers activities programs.
Venue: Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto. Room/Sala 203.
Scientific and Organizing Committee: Eleonora Lombardo; José Meirinhos; Maria de Lurdes Rosa; Zulmira Santos
Organization
Gabinete de Filosofia Medieval / Instituto de Filosofia da Universidade do Porto
Instituto de Estudos Medievais, FCSH da Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Centro de Investigação Transdisciplinar “Cultura, Espaço e Memória” - FLUP
Centro de Estudos de História Religiosa (UCP, Lisboa-Porto)
Support
Província Portuguesa da Ordem Franciscana
Funding
IF / UP – IEM – CITCEM – CEHR - FFP
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (fundos COMPETE ; QREN; União Europeia)
Contacts
gfm-secretariado@letras.up.pt
Gabinete de Filosofia Medieval
Faculdade de Letras
Universidade do Porto
Via Panorâmica s/n
4150-564 Porto
Portugal