Ora Pro Nobis II Space, Place and the Practice of Saints’ Cults across the Reformations 12-13 March 2015 at The National Museum, Copenhagen
THURSDAY 12 March
The conference is open to the public. No fees or registration required.
THURSDAY 12 MARCH
FRIDAY MARCH 13
9.30-9.45 Introduction
10.00-10.30 Tracey R. Sands (University of Copenhagen, Denmark): St Olav Comes to Gotland
9.45-10.45 Eric Palazzo (University of Poitiers, France):Saints and Materiality of the Senses in the Liturgy 10.45-11.00 Coffee 11.00-11.30 Ebbe Nyborg (The National Museum, Denmark): The Cult of St Michael in Denmark and the Origin of Obits in Parish Church Liturgy 11.30-12.00 Gerhard Jaritz (University of Krems, Austria): Region, Saints, and Images (Central Europe, 15th-17th Centuries): Developments and Changes 12.00-12.30 Discussion 12.30-13.30 Lunch 13.30-14.00 Christian Oertel (University of Jena, Germany): St Erik of Sweden: A Medieval Saint Helping to Forge the Modern Swedish Nation 14.00-14.30 Päivi Mehtonen (University of Helsinki, Finland): Saints and Heretics: The Vernacular Manuscripts of the 18th Century Radical Reform Movements in Finland 14.30-15.00 Discussion 15.00-15.15 Coffee 15.15-15.45 Paul Gazzoli (University of Cambridge, England): Practical Devotion, Antiquarianism, and the Movement of the Life of Anskar through Northern Germany and Scandinavia c. 1450-1616 15.45-16.15 Jette Arneborg & Per Kristian Madsen (The National Museum, Denmark) The Holy St Lucius and His Merits from 253 A.D. to 2015 A.D. 16.15-16.45 Discussion 16.45-18.00 Conference reception at the National Museum
10.30-11.00 Anu Mänd (Tallinn University, Estonia): St Olaf's Church in Tallinn: A Centre for Scandinavian Cults in Estonia 11.00-11.30 Discussion 11.30-12.00 Brian Møller Jensen (University of Stockholm, Sweden): Justina and Antoninus, Compatroni di Piacenza 12.00-12.30 Roman Hankeln (University of Trondheim, Norway): St Maurice's Office Chantes 800-1500: Thematic and Functional Constants and Changes Before the "Age of the Reformations" 12.30-13.00 Discussion 13.00-13.45 Lunch 13.45-14.15 Jens Vellev (University of Aarhus, Denmark): Relics from the altars of Danish parish churches 14.15-14.45 Sari Katajkala-Peltomaa (University of Tampere, Finland): "Sancta Birgitta, adiuva me!" Comparison of Northern and Southern Cultic Practices in Late-Medieval Canonization Processes 14.45-15.15 Discussion 15.15-15.30 Coffee 15.30-16.00 Béla Szakacs (Central European University, Budapest) Domestic Saints: Tombs and Miracles in the Hungarian Angevin Legendary 16.00-16.30 Martin Wangsgaard Jürgensen (The National Museum, Denmark): The Cult of the Specific: The role of the tangible in the devotion to saints across the Reformation 16.30-17.00 Discussion
19.00 Free Concert in Trinitatis Church with an introduction by Nils Holger Petersen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) see: http://trinitatiskirke.dk/event/2452/tema-koncert-helgener-oghellighed-i-musik
The conference proceedings take place in the cinema of the The National Museum in Copenhagen at Ny Vestergade 10, 1471 København K.
If you have any questions please contact: Martin Wangsgaard Jürgensen (
[email protected]) and/or Mia Münster-Swendsen (
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