{"id":323,"date":"2012-01-02T13:53:18","date_gmt":"2012-01-02T18:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nd.edu\/medieval\/?page_id=323"},"modified":"2013-11-06T07:23:39","modified_gmt":"2013-11-06T12:23:39","slug":"session-3","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/medieval\/session-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Session 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

November 14, 5 pm, 715 Hesburgh Library<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

(Note: Back to original time!)<\/p>\n

Theme:<\/p>\n

Landscape Studies<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Koninklijke<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Speakers:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Amy Mulligan<\/a> (University of Notre Dame, Irish Studies): “Sanctifying Landscape \u2013Naturalizing Patrick and Pilgrimage in\u00a0Acallam na Sen\u00f3rach<\/i>“<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the\u00a0late-12th<\/sup>\u00a0or early 13th<\/sup>\u00a0c. Irish prosimetric text,\u00a0Acallam na Sen\u00f3rach\u00a0\u00a0<\/i>(\u201cColloquy of the Ancients\u201d) St. Patrick meets a pagan warrior, C\u00e1ilte, and the two unlikely companions\u00a0 journey together through Ireland, C\u00e1ilte regaling Patrick with stories prompted by the sites they visit and his emotional reactions to the wondrous events which took place there. Patrick, at the behest of two angels, has his scribe write these accounts down to preserve them for the enlightenment and \u2018entertainment of lords and commons of later times.\u2019\u00a0 The\u00a0Acallam\u00a0<\/i>models a productive relationship between the Irish Church and native tradition-bearers, and also serves as a complex meditation on the movement between oral and written literary modes. Building on those key elements, this paper will explore how Ireland, Patrick, and story-telling itself, are depicted and framed as environmental or landscape-based phenomena. I argue that a main goal of the\u00a0Acallam\u00a0<\/i>is to \u2018naturalize\u2019 St. Patrick, in all senses of the word. A British-born foreigner, by the end of the text, Patrick is recognized as Ireland\u2019s patron saint. Patrick is further \u2018naturalized\u2019 by rooting himself into the Irish landscape: as in so many Irish legends of kingship and sovereignty, Patrick and his preeminence are endorsed by the land, and his actions showcase an increasingly harmonious relationship with Ireland\u2019s natural environment. Furthermore, in the\u00a0Acallam<\/i>\u2019s rendering of Irish landscape, historical, built structures, including a powerful Norman monastic foundation, are erased from the Irish topography, and the virtual pilgrimage that the audience and readership of the\u00a0Acallam\u00a0<\/i>undertake within the pages of the text is one that privileges a natural Ireland, with an emphasis on green, wild and watery spaces. In the\u00a0Acallam,\u00a0<\/i>I argue that we encounter a uniquely Irish version of sacred-secular pilgrimage, one in which for Patrick, C\u00e1ilte and the audience, contemplative travel through Ireland\u2019s storied landscape is a sanctifying process.<\/p>\n

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Cara Aspesi<\/a> (University of Notre Dame, Theology Department): “Reconstructing Jerusalem by Stations: The Transformative Power of a 12th<\/sup>-Century Crusader Liturgical Procession”<\/strong><\/p>\n

After the armies of the First Crusade captured Jerusalem on July 15th<\/sup>, 1099, an anonymous liturgist composed a new Latin feast for July 15th<\/sup>\u00a0to commemorate the event.\u00a0 This feast, the\u00a0Festivitas s. Hierusalem<\/i>, was celebrated by the canons of the Holy Sepulchre throughout the period of Crusader occupation of Jerusalem. \u00a0By means of its combination of prayers, homiletic material, and selections from the vast repertory of Latin chant, the feast presented a new vision of Jerusalem\u2019s sacred past and present significance to the Western Christian community which now controlled the city.\u00a0 The\u00a0Festivitas s. Hierusalem\u00a0<\/i>underwent several revisions, each building on the theological themes of its predecessor, to eventually portray the earthy Jerusalem of the Crusaders as both a Western church and the Heavenly City of the Apocalypse. Especially important for this liturgical representation of Jerusalem was the feast\u2019s stational liturgy, a procession with three primary stations carried out throughout the city after the hour of Prime.\u00a0 By employing the strategies of reenactment, renaming, and reinterpretation, the procession laid the foundation for the feast\u2019s overall theological development by transforming Jerusalem\u2019s landscape from a mere earthly city to a space legitimately possessed by and sacred to Western Christians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

November 14, 5 pm, 715 Hesburgh Library (Note: Back to original time!) Theme: Landscape Studies Speakers: Amy Mulligan (University of Notre Dame, Irish Studies): “Sanctifying Landscape \u2013Naturalizing Patrick and Pilgrimage in\u00a0Acallam na Sen\u00f3rach“ In the\u00a0late-12th\u00a0or early 13th\u00a0c. Irish prosimetric text,\u00a0Acallam … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":381,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-323","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/medieval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/medieval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/medieval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/medieval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/381"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/medieval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/medieval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":634,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/medieval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/323\/revisions\/634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/medieval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}