Newly released HAGIOTHECA volume: Cuius Patrocinio Tota Gaudet Regio. Saints Cults and the Dynamics of Regional Cohesion, ed. Stanislava Kuzmová, Ana Marinković and Trpimir Vedriš (Zagreb: Hagiotheca, 2014) This volume arose from the Fourth Hagiotheca Conference held in Dubrovnik in October 2012, coorganized by the Croatian Hagiography Society Hagiotheca and the collaborative research project Symbols that Bind and Break Communities. Saints’ Cults as Stimuli and Expressions of Local, Regional, National and Universalist Identities (2010-2013) sponsored by the EuroCORECODE programme of the European Science Foundation (ESF), especially its associated partner based at the Department of Medieval Studies at the Central European University in Budapest – the subproject financed by OTKA (Hungarian Research Council, no. 81446) under the title Communicating Sainthood – Constituting Regions and Nations in East-Central Europe, Tenth-Sixteenth Centuries. Fifty speakers and six poster authors presented their research at the conference in Dubrovnik. Although not all of them contributed with their papers to this volume, it has grown into an impressive size and it represents the rich and inspiring meeting in Croatia. The event was attended by members of the subproject teams of the ESF CULTSYMBOLS project (Copenhagen, Tallinn, Trondheim, Krems, Budapest) and some of them contributed to the publication of the volume: Centre for the Study of the Cultural Heritage of Medieval Rituals at the University of Copenhagen; Institut für Realienkunde des Mittelalters und der frühen Neuzeit of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Krems (now affiliated to the University of Salzburg); Institute of History at the University of Tallinn; Institute for History and Classical Studies at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim; and the Department of Medieval Studies at the Central European University in Budapest. CONTENTS: Introduction Thomas Head: Introduction: Saints’ Relics and Community in the Earlier Middle :Ages (400-1100) Elizabeth Dawson: The Vita Patricii by Tírechán and the Creation of St Patrick’s Nationwide Status in Seventh-Century Ireland Maya Maskarinec: Foreign Saints at Home in Eighth- and Ninth-Century Rome. The Patrocinia of Diaconiae, Xenodochia, and Greek Monasteries Sara E. Ellis Nilsson: Holy Validation. Saints and Scandinavian Bishoprics Sebastián Salvadó: The Historiae of Saints Oswald and Edmund. Crafting the King’s Image, Defining the Community’s Identity Hana Breko Kustura: Inter-Regional and Local Saints Cults. Examples of Significant Liturgical Chants from Medieval Region of Istria Emanuela Elba: The Saints Across the Sea, the Overseas Saints. Cult and Images of St Michael and St Nicholas Between Apulia and Dalmatia in the Middle Ages Fernand Peloux: Episcopal Hagiography, Territorial Cohesion, and Memory in Southern Medieval France. The Case of the Diocese of Mende Anne Doustaly: Magdalena Praedicatrix and Other Provençal Cults. A Dialogue in Images Between Universal and Regional Identity Ana Munk: Patrocinia Multa Erant Habentes. State, Parrocchia, and Colony – Relic Acquisition in Medieval Venice Nicolas Bock: Unity By Diversity. Private Chapels, Church Architecture, and Concepts of Political Cohesion in Medieval Naples Dávid Falvay: The Multiple Regional Identity of a Neapolitan Queen. Mary of Hungarys Readings and Saints Eleonora Lombardo: The Development of Devotion to Saint Anthony Between Localism and Universalism Graham Jones: Shepherd of His Flock, Guardian of the Polis. The Geography of Regional Identity as Expressed in the Dedications of Churches Marco Bogade: Dorothea of Montau (+1394). Remarks on the Cult and the Iconographic Tradition of a Teutonic Knights’ Expelees ’ and Poles’ Saint Kathrin Wagner: The High-Altarpieces in the Hanseatic City of Rostock in Northern Germany. A Hagiographic Approach to Create Collective Identities Ivan Gerát: Saintly Patrons, Their Altarpieces, and Regional Identities in Medieval Scepusia Doina Elena Craçiun: From “Adoption” to Appropriation: Accom modating the Holy Hungarian Kings in Late Medieval Hungary Isolde Thyret: One Towns Saint is Another’s Worst Nightmare. Saints Cults and Regional Identity in Medieval and Early Modern Russias Upper Volga Region Diana Atanassova: Memory and Identity. Recycling of the Historical and Geographical Knowledge in Martyrium Sancti Arethae et Sociorum in South Slavic Context Lado Mirianashvili: How Did an Eulogia Brought from Jerusalem in the Sixth Century Assist in Promoting Davit-Gareji Cave Monasteries to The Regional Caucasian Significance Juan Luis González García: The Cult of Spain’s Regional Saints in Counter-Reformation Madrid Ivana Prijatelj Pavičić: Sulla venerazione dell’ immagine della Madonna di Sinj nel XVIII secolo e sul processo di trasformazione dal suo status dal simbolo antiturco al simbolo di identità nazionale Zrinka Blažević: Natales Divo Ladislavo Restituti. “Nationalization“ of St Ladislaus in the Seventeenth-Century Croatia Relja Seferović: Rational Clergy and Irrational Laity. An Eighteenth-Century Biography of St Blasius in Service of the State Promotion Sainthood, Patronage and Region Gábor Klaniczay: Concluding Remarks: Sainthood, Patronage and Region
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