6th International Hagiotheca Conference - The Saints of Rome

The Hungarian Association for Hagiographical Studies,
in cooperation with Hagiotheca, the Croatian Hagiography Society,

with the patronage of the Pontifical Council for Culture,

present

the 6th International Hagiotheca Conference

The Saints of Rome: Diffusion and Reception from Late Antiquity to the Early Modern Period

 

Rome, 4-6 October 2017

Accademia d’Ungheria in Roma
Palazzo Falconieri, Via Giulia 1

PROGRAMME:

 

OCTOBER 4, WEDNESDAY

 

3:00-6:00 pm registration

 

5:00 pm BOOK PRESENTATION

 

Pagans and Christians in the Late Roman Empire: New Evidence, New Approaches (4th-8thcenturies). Edited by Marianne Sághy – Edward M. Schoolman. Budapest: CEU Press, 2017.

Presented by Rita LizziTesta (University of Perugia) and Trpimir Vedriš(University of Zagreb, Hagiotheca)

 

Les saints face aux barbares au haut Moyen Age. Réalités et légendes. Edited by Edina Bozoky. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2017.

Presented by Hugh Doherty (University of East Anglia)

6:00 pm coffee break

 

6:30 pm Opening of the conference

 

István Puskás, Director of the Hungarian Academy of Rome

Gábor Klaniczay, Professor, Central European University, Budapest

H.E. Eduard Habsburg-Lothringen, Ambassador of Hungary to the Holy See

H. E. Neven Pelicarić, Ambassador of  Croatia to the Holy See

H.E. Pierre-Yves Fux, Ambassador of Switzerland to the Holy See and in Slovenia

 

 

7:00 pm Keynote Lecture

 

Alessandra Bartolomei Romagnoli (Pontifical Gregorian University)

La città delle reliquie. La reinvenzione del mito di Roma nello specchio delle fonti letterarie del Medio Evo

 

chaired by Gábor Klaniczay (Central European University, Budapest)

 

 

 

 

OCTOBER 5 THURSDAY

 

First Morning session (9:00-10:30 am)

 

Chair: Mons. Pasquale Iacobone, Secretary of the Pontifical Commission for Sacred Archeology

 

The Patrons of Rome

 

Agnese Pergola (Pontifical Institute of Christian Archaeology, Rome)

The Promotion of Saints’ Cults through Images in the Roman Catacombs: Private and Ecclesiastical Commissions

Samuel Cohen (Sonoma State University)

Relics and Reconciliation: The Papacy, the Cult of Saints, and the Creation of Sacred Space in Late Antique Rome

András Handl (University of Leuven)
Calixtus martyr et episcopus Romae: (Re)Invention and Afterlife of a Forgotten Saint

 

Coffee break (10:30-11:00 am)

 

Second Morning session (11:00– 12:00 pm)

 

Chair: Ana Marinković, University of Zagreb

 

Text and Devotion

 

Dávid Falvay (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest)

Saint Cecilia: a Roman Martyr in Late Medieval Devotional Literature

Mathilde van Dijk (University of Groningen)

Saint Lawrence and Reform in the Low Countries

 

Lunch break

(12:00-1:30 pm)

 

 

Poster presentations and discussion (1:30-3:30 pm)

 

Chair:  Edward M. Schoolman, University of Nevada, Reno

 

David Franz Hobelleitner (University of Graz)

Saint Clement of Rome - A Saint and His City?

Ines Ivić (Central European University, Budapest)

Jerome as a Roman Saint: The Translation of His Relics and the Construction of His Cult in Santa Maria Maggiore

Iliana Kandzha (Central European University, Budapest)

Appropriating Saint Lawrence in the Imperial Hagiography and Iconography of Saint Henry II

Lilla Mátyók-Engel (Humboldt University, Berlin)

Sienese Success in Rome. A Procession Crucifixus and a Relic Box as Agents in the Recognition of the Stigmatization of Saint Catherine of Siena

Eszter Konrád (Central European University, Budapest)

The Bride of Christ Goes to the Urbs: Saint Catherine of Siena and Rome in Late Medieval Hungarian Codices

Nina Niedermeier (Ludwig-Maximilians University, München)

Localizing Miracles: Local Spanish Cults and Ignatius of Loyola's Career

as «santo di Roma»

 

Lena Terlisten (Philipps University, Marburg)

Roman Catacomb Saints in Milan

Dorottya Uhrin (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest)

Italian Influences in the Cult of Saint Barbara in Hungary?

 

 

Coffee break (3:30-4:00 pm)

 

 

Afternoon session (4:00-6:00 pm)

 

Chair: Angelo di Berardino, Institutum Patristicum Augustinianum

 

Roman Saints Abroad: Early Medieval I

 

Marianne Sághy (Central European University and Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest)

The Cult of Saint Peter and Paul from Pannonia to Hungary

Edward M. Schoolman (University of Nevada, Reno)

Translating Saints from Rome to Romagna: Building Medieval Ravenna's Hagiographic Landscape

Edina Bozóky (University of Poitiers)

The Relationship of Local Apostolic Saints with Saint Peter and Saint Clement

Hugh Doherty (University of East Anglia)

The Saints of Rome in Anglo-Norman England

 

 

Coffee break (6:30-7 pm)

 

7 pm: Keynote Lecture

Roberto Rusconi(AISSCA)

 

«Romanus pontifex indubitanter efficitur sanctus»: Between (Supposed) Martyrdom and (Failed) Canonization Process

 

chaired by Francesco Scorza Barcellona (University of Rome "Tor Vergata" - AISSCA)

 

8:30 pm Organ Concert of László Almásy

Chiesa di Santa Dorotea (via di Santa Dorotea, 23)

 

 

OCTOBER 6 FRIDAY

 

First Morning session (9:00-10:30 am)

 

Chair: Marianne Sághy, Central European University, Budapest

 

Roman Saints Abroad: Early Medieval II

 

Eric Devos (Archive and the heritage council, Ronse)

Tracing the Itinerary of Saint Hermes: Iconography as an Indicator of the Whereabouts of a Roman Martyr

Diana Atanassova (University of Sofia “Saint Clement of Ohrid”)

The Cult of Saint Clement of Rome in Medieval Bulgaria

Ana Marinković – Trpimir Vedriš (University of Zagreb, Hagiotheca)

Missing Link: The Roman Layer of Early Medieval East-Adriatic sanctorale

 

Coffee break (10:30-11:00 am)

 

Second Morning session (11:00am –1:30pm)

 

Chair: Trpimir Vedriš, University of Zagreb

 

Roman Saints in Central Europe

Etele Kiss (Hungarian National Museum)

The Holy Virgin and the Martyr Bishops of Rome on the Hungarian Coronation  Mantle

Béla Zsolt Szakács (Pázmány Péter Catholic University and CEU, Budapest)

Roman Saints in the Hungarian Angevin Court

Dobrosława Horzela (Pontifical University of John Paul II, Cracow)

Between Heresy and Sanctity: Visual Strategies in the Representation of the Life of Saint Alexis

Josipa Alviž (University of Zagreb)

Saint Felix of Cantalice: the “Saint of the Roman Streets“ in Central Europe

 

Marek Walczak (Jagiellonian University, Institute of Art History)

Between the Eternal City and Cracow. Roman Aspects of the Cult of Saint Hyacinth of Poland OP (d. 1257)

 

Lunch break (1:30-2:30 pm)

 

Afternoon session (2:30-3:30pm)

 

Chair:  Jaime García Bernal (University of Sevilla)

 

Foreign Saints and Miracles in Rome

Maria H. Oen (Stockholm University)

Rome and the Sanctity of Brigitta

Jenni Kuuliala (University of Tampere)

Community and Veneration in Late Medieval and Early Modern Roman Miracles

 

Coffee break (3:30-4:00 pm)

 

Second Afternoon session (4:00 pm- 6 pm)

 

Chair: Paolo Broggio, Università Roma Tre

 

Roman Saints in the Early Modern World

Jasenka Gudelj (University of Zagreb)

Slavic Apostles Go to Rome: The Romanization of Saint Cyril and Saint Methodius in the Church of San Girolamo degli Schiavoni

Isabel Ruiz Garnelo (University of Valencia)

Roman Saints in Valencia? The Spiritual Legacy of the Borja Family

Nicolette S. Trahoulia (Deree College, The American College of Greece)

Catherine of Siena in Viceregal Latin American Art

 

Presentation of the conference project “Saints And Sanctity in the Ibero-American Baroque” (September 2018, Rome) by Fernando Quiles, Paolo Broggio, Jaime García Bernal

 

Coffee break (6pm-6:00 pm)

 

6:30 pm: Concluding Remarks by Gábor Klaniczay

 “Catholic Sanctity and Roman Universalism”