Ecclesiastical History Society Summer Conference, 22-25 July 2009
St Aidan's College, University of Durham
SAINTS AND SANCTITY
The forty-eighth Summer Meeting of the Society
Wednesday, 22 July
13.00
Arrivals and registration (Main Hall, St Aidan’s College)
14.00
Committee Meeting – Bailey Room
16.00
Tea
16.30
Prof Bill Sheils will induct Prof Andrew Louth (University of Durham) as President, followed
by the Presidential Address: Holiness and Sanctity in the Early Church – Lindisfarne Room
18.00
Wine reception (Lindisfarne) sponsored by the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies,
University of Durham
18.30
Dinner (Dining Hall)
20.00
Communications by Members: Session 1
1.1 Hagiography and Sanctity in the Early and Medieval Church – Lindisfarne Room. Chair: Prof
Andrew Louth
Alexis Torrance (Christ Church, Oxford)summer
Repentance as the Context of Sainthood in the Ascetical Theology of the Early Christian East
Dr Matthew dal Santo (Trinity College, Cambridge)
Verifying the Saints’ Cult in Early Byzantium: The Role of Images in Hagiography during the Later
Sixth and Seventh Centuries
Dr Peter Turner
Hagiography and Autobiography in the Late Latin West
1.2 Saints and Sanctity in the Later Medieval West – Bailey Room. Chair: Brenda Bolton
Prof Bernard Hamilton (University of Nottingham)
Why did the Crusade Movement lead to so few Canonizations?
Dr John Doran (University of Chester)
Roma Sancta? What did the Popes think of Rome in the Twelfth Century?
Joy Hawkins (University of East Anglia)
Seeing the Light? Blindness and Sanctity in Later Medieval England
1.3 Sainthood and Politics in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Britain – Shincliffe Room.
Chair: Prof Bill Sheils
Prof Françoise Deconinck-Brossard (Université de Paris X)
The ‘Saintship and Martyrdom’ of King Charles I in Anglo-American 30 January Sermons
Dr Colin Haydon (University of Winchester)
St Winifred, Bishop Fleetwood, and Jacobitism
Dr Mark Smith (University of Oxford)
The Duty of Man: Holiness and the Hanoverians
Thursday, 23 July
07.30
Anglican eucharist – Bailey Room; Catholic mass – Shincliffe Room
08.00
Breakfast (Dining Hall)
09.00
Communications by Members: Session 2
2.1 Anglo-Saxon Saints and Sanctity – Lindisfarne Room 2. Chair: Prof Sarah Foot
Olga Gusakova (State Academical University of Humanitarian Sciences, Moscow)
The Cult of Saints in Viking-Age England
Dr Zoya Metlitskaya (Institute of Scholarly Information on Humanities, Russian Academy of
Science)
Commemoration of a Hero or the Murder of a Saint: The Case of Aelfheah, Archbishop of
Canterbury
Prof Maureen Miller (University of California, Berkeley)
The Significance of Saint Cuthbert’s Vestments
2.2 Monasticism, Asceticism and Sanctity – Bailey Room. Chair: Prof Bernard Hamilton
Pak-Wah Lai (University of Durham)
The Monk as Christian Exemplar in St John Chrysostom’s Writings
Chris Wilson (University of Exeter)
Bede’s Vision of Saint Fursey in Thirteenth-Century England
Dr Katharine Sykes (Harris Manchester College, Oxford)
Sanctity as a Form of Capital
2.3 Models of English Protestant Sanctity – Shincliffe Room. Chair: Prof Tony Claydon
Dr Geordan Hammond (Nazarene Theological College, Manchester)
Sanctity in John Wesley’s Early Sermons
Robert Andrews (Murdoch University)
‘A master in the art of holy living’: Sir James Allan Park’s Portrait of William Stevens’ Sanctity
Stephen Bryn Roberts (University of Aberdeen / International Christian College, Glasgow)
Ralph Venning and the Imitation of Christ: The Puritan Pursuit of Sanctity
2.4 Early Modern Sainthood and its Uses – Lindisfarne Room 1. Chair: Dr Alison Forrestal
Dr Frans Ciappara (University of Malta)
Simulated Sanctity in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Malta
Oliver Logan (University of East Anglia)
San Luigi Gonzaga: Princeling-Jesuit and Model for Catholic Youth
10.30
Coffee (Lindisfarne) sponsored by Paternoster Publishing and featuring the launch of John
Wesley’s Preachers, by John Lenton
11.00
Dr Patrick Preston (University of Chichester) – Lindisfarne Room
St Pius V (1504-1572) and Santa Caterina Ricci (1523-1590): Two Ways of being a Saint in
Counter-Reformation Italy
12.30
Lunch (Dining Hall)
14.00
Communications by Members: Session 3
3.1 Holy Men and Martyrs in the Early Church (i) – Lindisfarne Rm 1. Chair: Dr Thomas Graumann
Elena Martin (University of Durham)
Commemoration, Representation and Interpretation: Augustine’s Depictions of the Martyrs
Jonathan L. Zecher (University of Durham)
Development of the Cult of the Martyrs in the East: The Examples of John Chrysostom and
Ignatius of Antioch
3.2 Relics, Miracles and Wonders – Bailey Room. Chair: Professor Robert Swanson
Heather Ráliš (University of Cardiff)
The Power of Relics in Late Antiquity
Dr Hilary Powell (University of Cambridge)
Saints and the Manufacture of Materia Medica
Dr Sam Riches (Lancaster University)
Saint and Monster, Saint as Monster: Exemplary Encounters with the Other
3.3 Constructing Modern and Contemporary Sainthood (i) – Shincliffe Room. Chair: Prof Michael
Walsh
Dr Andrew Atherstone (Wycliffe Hall, Oxford)
The Canonization of the Forty English Martyrs
Sophia Deboick (University of Liverpool)
‘Briser le statue’: Céline Martin’s Images of Thérèse of Lisieux and the Creation of a Modern Saint
Dr Jo Laffin (Flinders University)
‘A Saint for all Australians’?
3.4 Sainthood in the late Nineteenth Century – Lindisfarne Room 2. Chair: Dr Mark Smith
Prof Clyde Binfield (University of Sheffield)
‘A Saint if ever there was one’: Henry Robert Reynolds, 1825-1896
Ariana Patey (Heythrop College, London)
Sanctity and Mission in the Life of Charles de Foucauld
Rev Dr Martin Wellings
Commerce and Culture: Benjamin Gregory’s Side-lights on Wesleyan Sanctity in the Later
Nineteenth Century
15.30
Tea - Lindisfarne
16.00
Communications by Members: Session 4
4.1 Holy Men and Martyrs in the Early Church (ii) – Lindisfarne Room. Chair: Prof Michael Walsh
Dr Phil Booth (Trinity College, Oxford)
The Decline of the Late Antique Holy Man
Jessica Lee Ehinger (St Peter’s College, Oxford)
‘To Leave Undisturbed’: The Injunction of ‘Abū Bakr and the Role of Holy Men during the Period of
the Islamic Expansion
4.2 St Thomas Becket and his Cult – Bailey Room. Chair: Dr John Doran
Gesine Oppitz-Trotman (University of East Anglia)
‘postremo beatum Thomam invocavi’: Royal Power and Saintly Authority in the Hagiography of St
Thomas
Dr Margaret Cormack (College of Charleston)
Thomas Becket in Iceland
4.3 Constructing Modern and Contemporary Sainthood (ii) – Shincliffe Room. Chair: Dr Tim Grass
Dr Rowan Strong (Murdoch University)
Anglicanism and Sanctity: The Diocese of Perth and the Making of a ‘Local Saint’ in 1984
Virginia Rounding (Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the Courtauld Institute of Art)
The Holy Passion-Bearers: An Imperial Family as Icon
17.15
Coffee – Lindisfarne
17.30
Annual General Meeting – Lindisfarne Room
18.30
Dinner (Dining Hall)
20.00
Dr Sheridan Gilley (University of Durham) – Lindisfarne Room
Friday, 24 July
07.30
Anglican eucharist – Bailey Room; Catholic mass – Shincliffe Room
08.00
Breakfast (Dining Hall)
09.00
Prof Michael Walsh (Heythrop College, University of London) – Lindisfarne Room
John Paul II and his Canonizations
10.30
Coffee – Lindisfarne
11.00
Communications by Members: Session 5
5.1 Sanctity and Gender – Lindisfarne Room 1. Chair: Prof Maureen Miller
Prof Anne Lester (University of Colorado at Boulder)
Sexing the Saint: Gender’s Collapse under Cistercian Profession, 1150-1300
Crystal Lubinsky (University of Edinburgh)
Female Saint, Male Sanctity: The Case of Saint Matrona
Dr Christine Walsh
Erat Abigail mulier prudentissima: Gilbert of Tournai and Attitudes to Female Sanctity in the Later
Thirteenth Century
5.2 Medieval Royal Saints and Sanctity – Bailey Room. Chair: Dr Clare Stancliffe
Prof Sarah Foot (University of Oxford)
Relocating the Saints: Sanctity, Relics and King Æthelstan
Rebecca Pinner (University of East Anglia)
Saxon Saints and Murdered Kings: Pilgrimage to St Edmund of East Anglia
Dr Iona McCleery (University of Leeds)
The Queen’s Touch: Sanctity and Healing in a Medieval Portuguese Royal Cult
5.3 Saints in the Era of the Reformation – Shincliffe Room. Chair: Dr Stella Fletcher
Aude de Mézerac-Zanetti (University of Durham / Université de Paris III)
Liturgical Sources for the Henrician Reformation: A Focus on Saints’ Days
Dr Margaret Harvey (University of Durham)
The Durham Saints after the Reformation in the Writings of Christopher Watson (d. 1580/1)
Dr Susan Wabuda (Fordham University)
Saint Bilney
5.4 Sainthood beyond the British Metropolis – Lindisfarne Room 2. Chair: Prof Jane Dawson
Stephen Holmes (University of Edinburgh)
St Merolilanus and Scottish Catholic Identity
Prof Salvador Ryan (St Patrick’s College, Maynooth)
‘I, too, am a Christian’: Tracking Early Martyrs and their Lives in the Late Medieval and Early
Modern Irish Manuscript Tradition
Sarah Scutts (University of Exeter)
‘Truth Never Needed the Protection of Forgery’: Sainthood and Miracles in Robert Hegge’s The
Legend of Saint Cuthbert (1626)
12.30
Lunch (Dining Hall)
Excursion: Exhibitions at Durham Cathedral Archives and Palace Green Library; visit to Cathedral
18.45
Round Table – Lindisfarne Room
20.00
Conference Dinner (Dining Hall)
Saturday, 25 July
08.00
Breakfast (Dining Hall)
08.45
Departures or excursion: Escomb Saxon church, Bowes Museum, Egglestone Abbey, Staindrop,
Ushaw College
17.45
Arrival at Durham railway station
18.00
Return to St Aidan’s College