{"id":5395,"date":"2016-01-22T09:37:39","date_gmt":"2016-01-22T09:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=5395"},"modified":"2016-01-22T13:46:40","modified_gmt":"2016-01-22T13:46:40","slug":"anne-alwis-to-talk-on-hagiography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2016\/01\/22\/anne-alwis-to-talk-on-hagiography\/","title":{"rendered":"Anne Alwis to talk on hagiography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/classics\/staff\/alwis.html\">Dr Anne Alwis<\/a> from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/classics\/index.html\">Department of Classical &amp;\u00a0Archaeological Studies<\/a> is to give two talks on hagiography in February.\u00a0 The first, entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kcl.ac.uk\/artshums\/ahri\/eventrecords\/2015-2016\/CHS\/Metaphrasis.aspx\">\u2018&#8221;The Shape of Water&#8221;: Rewriting Virgin Martyrs in Byzantium\u2019<\/a> is at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kcl.ac.uk\/index.aspx\">King&#8217;s College London<\/a> on Tuesday 9 February 2016.<\/p>\n<p>According to their saintly biographies, Tatiana of Rome and Ia of Persia were martyred in the third and fourth centuries C.E. Their cults were not immensely popular but roughly a thousand years after their alleged deaths, the stories of these virgin martyrs were chosen to be either re-written and\/or copied in 13th\/14th-century Byzantium. The paper will examine the process of rewriting to examine why stories are retold; why hagiography is such a fluid and flexible &#8216;genre&#8217;; and what that might imply for the transmission of sacred knowledge and authority in Byzantium.<\/p>\n<p>Anne will also present a paper on \u2018Rhetorical Heroines: Rewriting Virgin Martyrs\u2019 at an international conference hosted by the European Research Council research group <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flwtest3.ugent.be\/\">Novel Saints<\/a> at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ugent.be\/en\">University of Ghent<\/a>, Belgium from 18-20 February 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The conference entitled \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/www.letterkunde.ugent.be\/calendar\/1073\">Holy Hero(in)es: Literary Constructions of Heroism in Late Antique and Early Medieval Hagiography<\/a>\u2019 aims to explore definitions of and aspects\/concepts relevant to heroism in Christian\u00a0narrative. What does it mean to be a hero(ine) in these narratives? Are there different types of\u00a0hero(in)es (and of heroism)? To what extent can narratological concepts provide useful tools for\u00a0evaluating hagiographical constructions of heroism? The other central question is how saints (and\/or,\u00a0possibly, other characters) are characterised, shaped, imagined and\/or constructed as hero(in)es.<\/p>\n<p>Further details of the conference are available at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.letterkunde.ugent.be\/calendar\/1073\">www.letterkunde.ugent.be\/calendar\/1073<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Anne Alwis from the Department of Classical &amp;\u00a0Archaeological Studies is to give two talks on hagiography in February.\u00a0 The first, entitled \u2018&#8221;The Shape of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2016\/01\/22\/anne-alwis-to-talk-on-hagiography\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5829,"featured_media":5409,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18564,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5395"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5829"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5395"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5452,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5395\/revisions\/5452"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}