17–19 May, 2023, Budapest
International conference organized by the
Department of Medieval History of Eötvös Loránd University, the Hungarian Association for Hagiography, and the
Medieval Central European Research Network (MECERN)
Registration and information: saintsandsupernatural@gmail.com, www.hagiografia.hu
Facebook event:https://www.facebook.com/events/5816510755120865
Venue:
Council Hall
Faculty of Humanities, Eötvös Loránd University,
4a Múzeum krt, 1088 Budapest
17 May from 14:30–19:00:
Room 103 (Tiered Room), and Room 101 (Quantum Room), Budapest campus, Central European University,
15 Nádor utca, 1055 Budapest
You can join online to the conference via Zoom:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89081230669?pwd=ZDVRdVRuajl4TS90ZFZxVXcwTkM5Zz09
Meeting ID 890 8123 0669
Passcode: 187759
Sponsors of the conference
University Excellence Fund, Eötvös Loránd University
Scholarly and Research Fund, Student Union, Faculty of Humanities, Eötvös Loránd University
Fund for International Conferences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Democracy in History workgroup of the CEU Democracy Institute
Organizers: Balázs Nagy and Dorottya Uhrin – in collaboration with Dávid Falvay and Ottó Gecser
17 May, Wednesday
9:45-10:00
Welcome address: Balázs Nagy (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest)
10:00-11:30
Moderator: Katalin Szende (Central European University, Vienna and Budapest)
Nóra Berend (University of Cambridge) Sanctity and Violence in Hungary and the Iberian Peninsula
Dragoş Gh. Năstăsoiu (New Europe College, Bucharest) Political Legitimizing through the Sacred in the Context of the Early-fourteenth Century Struggle for the Hungarian Throne
Máté Vas (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest) The Supernatural and the Vision of Charles IV: How are They Connected to the History of Mutilation and Late Medieval Masculinity?
11:30-12:00
Coffee break
12:00-13:30
Moderator: Gábor Thoroczkay (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest)
Viktória Deák (Sapientia College of Theology of Religious Orders, Budapest) Thomas Aquinas and the Saints
Eszter Konrád (University Library, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest) Observant Saintly Ideal and the Supernatural: Bernard of Hungary’s Years on the Mount La Verna
Ines Ivić (Ca’ Foscari University, Venice) Re-Inventing Saint Jerome in the Late Middle Ages: Saint Francis as a Hagiographic Model?
13:30-15:00
Lunch break
The afternoon program will be held on the Budapest campus of Central European University
15 Nádor utca, 1055 Budapest
15:00-16:30 Room 103 (Tiered Room)
Moderator: Beatrix Romhányi (Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church, Budapest)
Nicole Bériou (Lumière University Lyon 2) Clothes and Clothing in the Language of some Preachers in Thirteenth-Century France
Giacomo Mariani (Michele Pellegrino Foundation, Turin) An Italian Hagiographical Narrative in Budapest (ELTE Könyvtár Ms. lat. 128): Santa Giustina da Padova and a Vision of Afterlife
Ditta Szemere – Dávid Falvay (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest) The Secret Protagonist: Saint Francis of Assisi in the Italian Vita Christi Literary Tradition
16:30-17:00
Coffee break
17:00-18:30 Room 101 (Quantum Room)
Moderator: Ottó Gecser
Edit Madas (National Széchényi Library, Budapest) Les tombes et les reliques de Sainte Marguerite de Hongrie
József Laszlovszky (Central European University, Vienna and Budapest) …sed bene annos non scio computare, quia sum laica – The Memory of Life-Changing Events during and after the Mongol Invasion of Hungary (1241-42) Recorded in the Canonization Process of Saint Margaret
Levente Seláf (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest) Saint Elisabeth of Hungary’s Middle French Legend in the Context of Female and Mystical Saints’ Biographies
18:30-19:00
Moderator: Benedek Láng (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest)
Jean-Claude Schmitt (School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, EHESS, Paris) Gábor Klaniczay: A European Cross-Border Historian
19:00
Reception
18 May, Thursday
9:30-11:00
Moderator: László Veszprémy (Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest)
Stanislava Kuzmová (Comenius University, Bratislava) Four Unknown Latin Sermons on Saint Ladislas from the Dzikow Manuscript
Paweł Kras (John Paul II Catholic University, Lublin) A Miracle-Worker of Many Specialties. Reading the Liber miraculorum of Friar Szymon of Lipnica
Péter Molnár (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest) Lectures orthodoxes d’un saint catholique. Les variantes d’une légende d’origine hongroise du roi saint Ladislas de Hongrie, aux confins des XVe et XVIe siècles
11:00-11:30
Coffee break
11:30-13:00
Moderator: Dávid Falvay (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest)
Stanko Andrić (Croatian Institute of History, Zagreb) Miracles and Marvels as Historical Facts
Dorottya Uhrin (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest) Saint Emeric and His Miracles
Christian-Frederik Felskau (Independent scholar, Cologne) Saints, Witnesses, Beneficiaries, and Supporters in Rome and Prague. The Miracle Reports of Margherita Colonna (†1280) and Agnes of Bohemia (†1282)
13:00-14:00
Lunch break
14:00-15:30
Moderator: Dorottya Uhrin
Letizia Pellegrini (University of Macerata) The Everyday Supernatural: Reports from the Women’s Cloisters (Fifteenth-Century Italy)
Carmen Florea (Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj) Friars and Nuns: Local Observant Strategies in the Making of Saints’ Cults
Anna Porkoláb (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest) Sensing the Evil: Diabolic Visions of the Sisters of Unterlinden
15:30-16:30
Visit to the Manuscript and Old Print Collection of the University Library, hosted by Eszter Konrád
16:30-18:00
Moderator: Gábor Kiss Farkas (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest)
Edina Bozóky (University of Poitiers) Les sarcophages dans les récits d’inventions de reliques
Richard Kieckhefer (Northwestern University, Chicago) Sacred Lives, Sacred Bones, and Sacred Places
Katie Keene (Independent scholar) St. Margaret of Scotland’s Favorite Gospel Book: A Mirror of or for a Princess?
19 May, Friday
9:30-11:00
Moderator: Enikő Békés (Eötvös Loránd Research Network, Budapest)
Béla Zsolt Szakács (Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest, and Central European University, Vienna and Budapest) The King’s Holy Company: The Bern Diptych Revisited
Ana Marinković (University of Zagreb) The Rays with Time Turned into a Diadem: Depiction of Halo in Canonization Propaganda
Marina Schumann (University Centre for Protestant Theology “Matthias Flacius Illyricus”, University of Zagreb) Inseparable in Life and Death: Visual Rendering of the Apocryphal Historia trium regum in Mecklenburg (Late Medieval and Early Modern Periods)
11:00-11:30
Coffee break
11:30-13:00
Moderator: Veronika Novák (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest)
Olga Kalashnikova (Central European University, Vienna and Budapest) (Com)Passion of Christ: Affective Texts for Good Friday Preaching in Fourteenth-Century Bohemia
Ottó Gecser (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest) Canonized Saints, Mendicant Saints, Helper Saints: Nicholas of Tolentino, Bernardino of Siena, and Vincent Ferrer against the Plague
Bálint Novák (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest) Saints and Scriptors. New Aspects of Medieval Hagiography and Book History: Sources from Lower Austria
13:00-14:00
Lunch break
14:00-15:30
Moderator: György Galamb (University of Szeged)
Jenni Kuuliala (Tampere University) Saints and the Experience of Supernatural Illness in Renaissance Italy
Piroska Nagy (University of Québec, Montréal) The Life of Filippo dell’Aquila and the Supernatural: The Fabric of a Little Observant Saint in Fifteenth-Century Italy
Tamar Herzig (Tel Aviv University) Slaves and Holy Women in Early Modern Italy
15:30-16:00
Coffee break
16:00-17:30
Moderator: Hedvig Bubnó (Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church, Budapest)
Ildikó Csepregi (University of Vigo) Types of Saints: Challenging Peter Brown
Trpimir Vedriš (University of Zagreb) In Sclavonia pergens et ibi praedicans…: The Enigmatic Case of St Marcella of Nin
Dyan Elliott (Northwestern University, Chicago) The Saintly and Not-So-Saintly Body in the Work of Gregory the Great
17:30-18:00
Closing remarks, Gábor Klaniczay (Central European University, Vienna and Budapest, and Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest)
