American Academy in Rome

AMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME

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The Saint between Manuscript and Print: Authors, Editors, Publishers, Readers, and the Phenomena of Sanctity in Europe, 1300-1600
Friday 20 June
9:30am-5:00pm Seminar
Lecture Room
Via Angelo Masina, 5

This seminar, organized by Alison Frazier, FAAR’98, Associate Professor of History, University of Texas at Austin, will explore four principal topics: the relation between image and text; the saint's role in contemporary religious and political controversies; the propagation of hagiographic cults through both manuscripts and printed sources; and the role of hagiographic manuscripts in the creation of printed authority.

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American Academy in Rome
Via Angelo Masina 5
00153 Rome, Italy.