International Workshop Saints and martyrs between Italy and the Mediterranean in Late Antiquity

International Workshop

Saints and martyrs between Italy and the Mediterranean in Late Antiquity:
Movements, connections, and influences

Venue: Institut für Klassische Archäologie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität,
Munich 22nd -23rd November 2024

Program

Friday, 22nd November 2024
14:00 – Welcome/registration to the conference
14:10 - Opening remarks
Prof. Dr. Franz Alto Bauer
Daniela Coppola M.A.
Session 1: The sacred space around the saints: the power of relics
14:30 – 15:00 Dr. Alessandro Luciano, Suor Orsola Benincasa University of
Naples
‘Foreign’ relics in late-antique Italy and their placements.
15:00-15:30 Dr. Arabella Cortese, University of Regensburg
Memoria apostolorum in Concordia Sagittaria: the Socio-Political and
Symbolic Role of the Apostle’s Relics and their Architectural Framing
15:30-16:00 Arturo Massa, M.A., University of Bari
The cult of Euphemia of Chalcedon between the East and Upper Adriatic Italy
16:00 -16:30 – Coffee break
Session 2 The cult of saints and the role of bishops
16:30-17:00 Jacob A. Knechtel M.A., University of Bonn
Worship through networking. How Ambrose spread the cult of Gervasius and
Protasius
17:00-17:30 Dr. Marina Zgrablić, Juraj Dobrila University of Pula
The Collection of Foreign Relics in Lateran Baptistery in Late Antiquity and
Early Middle Ages: Saint Maurus of Poreč in Rome
17:30-18:00 Daniela Coppola, M.A., University of Munich
Eo tempore quo ex Africae partibus aduenit. The veneration of African bishops
in late antique Naples.
18:00 - Coffee break
18:30- 19:30 Keynote Lecture
Prof. Dr. Robert Wiśniewski, University of Warsaw
How popular was the cult of St Peter?
20:30 - Dinner
Saturday, 23rd November 2024
Session 3 The cult of saints from Italy to the Mediterranean
9:00-9:30 Dr. Mathias Sandberg, University of Münster
To each saint his candle - Arcadius, Eudoxia and the Italian connection of
Johannes Chrysostomos
9:30-10:00 Dr. Jerzy Szafranowski, University of Warsaw
Relics from the Italian Peninsula in Late Antique and Early Medieval Gaul
10:00-10:30 Elena Weber M.A., University of Marburg
The distribution of Ambrosian martyrs in late antique Gaul
10:30- 11:00 Dr. John Joseph Gallagher, University of St Andrews
Unity in Diversity: The Communion of Saints in Early Medieval Northwestern
Europe
11:00-11:30 Coffee break (30 min)
Session 4 The cult of saints from the Mediterranean to Italy
11:30- 12:00 Dr. Mauro Vassena, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome
Perdiderat civitas suos martyres quae rapuit alienos. The spread of the
“foreign” cult of Saint Victor in Milan during Late Antiquity
11:30-12:00 Dr. Alberto d’Inca, Facoltá Teologica dell’Italia Settentrionale,
Milan
Subversive Examples of Saints and Martyrs. The Spread of the Cult of
“latrones” in Late Antique Italy
12:00- 12:30 Dr.Vesna Lalošević – Dr. Kristina Džin, Institut of Social Sciences
„Ivo Pilar“
Why did some non-local cults become important in certain geographical areas?
12.30-13:00 Conclusive Remarks

With the kind support of
Spätantike Archäologie und
Byzantinische
Kunstgeschichte e.V.