CALL FOR PAPERS
Ora Pro Nobis II: Space, Place and the Practice of Saints’ Cults across the Reformations 12-13 March 2015, The Danish National Museum in Copenhagen
In April 2014 an international conference took place at the University of Copenhagen, dedicated to the discussion of saints’ cults in medieval and early-modern Scandinavia entitled Ora Pro Nobis: Space, Place and the Practice of Saints’ Cults. The conference proved particularly fruitful and opened for exciting further discussion. These discussions are thus to be continued with a second conference broadening the scope of questions from the Middle Ages and into early modern and even modern contexts. We thus call for further papers on the spatial and practical aspects of the medieval saints' cult as well as its new forms in a post-Reformation context. Of particular interest are the processes of transformation which the saints and saintly figures underwent during the diverse reformations of the sixteenth century. While by no means necessary, studies dealing with a Scandinavian perspective are particularly encouraged. However, all relevant proposals are welcome. Scholars from every field are welcome to contribute with paper proposals, as we want to examine the practical and ritual aspects of the cults from as many angles as possible in an interdisciplinary discussion. It is the intention to publish the proceedings from the conference; we thus call for new research combined with methodological considerations which hopefully will be inspirational to the participants in the conference, but will make the ensuing volume a stimulating contribution to the international study of saints’ cults and hagiography.
The Organisers are: Nils Holger Petersen, Mia Münster-Swendsen, Thomas Heebøl-Holm and Martin Wangsgaard Jürgensen. Ora Pro Nobis II is sponsored by the European Science Foundation (ESF) within the framework of the EUROCORES Programme entitled 'European Comparisons in Regional Cohesion, Dynamics and Expressions' and the National Museum of Denmark. The conference is connected to two recent international projects: the ESF collaborative project ‘Symbols that Bind and Break Communities: Saints' Cults as Stimuli and Expressions of Local, Regional, National and Universalist Identities’ and ‘Danish Historical Writing before 1225 and its Intellectual Context in Medieval Europe’ funded by the Danish Research Council of the Humanities.
Paper proposals for 30-minute presentations should be sent to Martin Wangsgaard Jürgensen (
[email protected]) and/or Mia Münster-Swendsen (
[email protected]) by 20 January 2015 at the latest where after notifications will be sent out by 1 February.
