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---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 16:32:31 +0100 (BST) From: George FERZOCO <[log in to unmask]> Reply-To: [log in to unmask] To: [log in to unmask] Subject: CFP Saints' Cults: Towards a trans-national survey (fwd) CALL FOR PAPERS - PLEASE CROSS-POST LEEDS INTERNATIONAL MEDIEVAL CONGRESS 12-15 JULY 1999 Session(s):- Saints' Cults: Towards a trans-national survey Preparations are in hand for an international colloquium, to be held at Leicester in July 1999, to plan a European collaborative project for a trans-national electronic atlas and database of saints' cults with accompanying commentary. As a curtain-raiser, papers are invited for a series of sessions at the Leeds Medieval Congress from individuals of any discipline who are interested in discussing both the advantages of such a project and the kinds of practical problems that will have to be solved in order to make the collaboration work smoothly. The sessions, one of which could take the form of a workshop, are sponsored by the Hagiography Society and the Centre for Mediaeval Research, University of Leicester. The European project grows out of interest expressed at a high international level in current research in the Department of English Local History at Leicester to produce an electronic atlas of saints' cults for England and Wales. This involves the systematic and comprehensive recovery and recording, parish-by-parish, of the cult of saints, as expressed principally in the dedications of churches and altars, but also, inter alia, in the presence of devotional objects, including shrines, images and relics, patronage of gilds and fairs, and popular hallowing of features in the landscape. Speakers may wish to explore such innovative work as a tool for historical, social, cultural, anthropological and other fields of inquiry. Papers might, for example, illustrate, and attempt to interpret the patterning, temporal, spatial or thematic, which analysis and/or mapping of the material reveals. Comparative studies will be particularly welcome, whether as between countries, regions, or towns and villages, between periods, or between categories of saint. Approaches are likely to be inter-disciplinary and the topic offers scope for a variety of methodologies. Developed versions of the papers given at Leeds will be considered for incorporation in the Leicester colloquium publication. Please send a 300-word abstract, and brief c.v., to the organiser at the address below by September 14, 1998. Graham Jones (Dr) Leverhulme Special Research Fellow University of Leicester Department of English Local History Marc Fitch House 5 Salisbury Road Leicester LE1 7QR United Kingdom e-mail: [log in to unmask]