We kindly invite paper and poster proposals for an in-person international conference hosted by the University of Salamanca in collaboration with the Museum of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain.

This international conference seeks to explore the means of constructing and reconstructing saints in and beyond the Iberian Peninsula with particular emphasis on:

–    the import of new saints into the Iberian Peninsula from the Holy Land, neighboring territories, occupied territories, etc.;
–    the export of saints from the Iberian Peninsula to Europe, Latin America, etc.;
–    the re/creation of saints in the Iberian Peninsula e.g. martyrdom narratives;

The conference approaches this process of saintly re/construction mostly, but not exclusively, from the perspective of:

TRANSITION AND TRANSFER
–    known or lesser-known saints transferred and adapted in geographic areas which require further exploration such as Latin America in the Early Modern Period contributing to a global perspective on the creation and recreation of saints;
–    Saints at crossroads of land and sea and patterns of transfer: between the Mediterranean, the Atlantic Ocean, etc.;
–    cultural transfer and material culture of sanctity;
–    transitional periods and saints from the Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages; the Middle Ages to the Early Modern Period;

INTERACTION
–     adaptation to new cultural contexts and new peoples through religious discourses, hagiographic narratives, and de/construction of images;
–    Local/regional incorporations, interactions, and adaptations;
–    Interactions with images, transfer(s) and circulation(s) of iconographies;
–    Local/regional, personal/collective devotional developments and practices;

PRODUCTION
–    Re/creation of saints and various media (statues, reliefs, panel paintings, manuscript illuminations, frescoes, stained glass, metalwork, mosaics, textiles, etc.);
–    Re/creation of saints in relation architecture;