| Medieval Studies Program Lecture: Gábor Klaniczay |
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Monday, November 09 2009, 5:00pm - 6:30pm |
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The Rutgers Program in Medieval Studies Invites you to a lecture by Gábor Klaniczay Professor of History, Central European University, Budapest
“Bodily Effects of Visions: The Medieval Evidence” Monday, November 9 5:00 p.m. Van Dyck Hall room 301 (College Avenue Campus) Gábor Klaniczay is one of the world’s leading experts in premodern popular religion, magic and witchcraft, and sainthood. Author of five monographs and dozens of articles, he is best known to English speakers for The Uses of Supernatural Power: The Transformations of Popular Religion in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (1990) and Holy Rulers and Blessed Princesses: Dynastic Cults in Medieval Central Europe (2002). One theme in his work is the blurred line between the holy and the demonic, as similar practices could be associated with either and the judicial processes for determining each were notably similar. His talk at Rutgers will discuss one manifestation of this ambiguity: the visible marks left on the body by visionary experience. While conforming to an orthodox Christian tradition of the physical transformations effected by contact with the divine, such marks were also associated with diabolic possession. The status of the most famous example – the stigmata—will be examined both in its theoretical treatment and in its manifestation in a half-dozen individuals from Saint Francis through the late Middle Ages.
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