This public klecture is held in the framework of the OTKA Saints Colloquia Series and the Faculty Research Seminar.
This presentation will combine two types of accounts. Gábor Klaniczay will present the principal project during his past sabbatical year, on a history of discourses on stigmata from Francis of Assisi to Padre Pio. He will give an account of the source materials in the archives (Archivio Secreto Vaticano, Archivio della Congregazione delle Cause della Fede, Archivio Generale dell'Ordine dei Predicatori - Rome, Bibliotheque des Bollandistes, Bruxelles), introduce the institutions where he presented parts of these researches (Institut d'Études Avancées, Paris - where he organized a conference; Groupe d'Anthropologie Historique du Moyen Age Occidental/GAHOM-EHESS, Paris; Institut de Recherche de l'Histoire des Textes/IRHT, Paris; Centre Interdisciplinaire des Études des Faits Religieux/CIEFR-EHESS, Paris). In the second round, Klaniczay will also give an account of his other ongoing research and workshops on the problem of the proofs of miracles in canonization processes (Université Paris III; Villa Lante, Rome). Another project which he got involved in, of interest also to our OTKA project, is the Italian and French research on medieval and modern sanctuaries (comprehensive topographic, archaeological, historical and iconographic documentation), initiated by S. Boesch Gajano, G. Otranto, R. Rusconi, A. Vauchez, C. Vincent - Klaniczay took part at a large conference in Paola (Calabria, Italy) on this issue.
Gábor Klaniczay is University Professor at the Department of Medieval Studies, CEU. His principal academic interests are in historical anthropology of medieval Christendom (sainthood, miracle beliefs, healing, magic, witchcraft), medieval and modern visions and their bodily manifestations, stigmata, comparative cultural and religious history of Hungary and Central Europe in an all-European context. Recent publications related to the theme of the presentation: “On the Stigmatization of Saint Margaret of Hungary,” in Miri Rubin, ed., Medieval Christianity in Practice, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009, 274-284; (ed. with William A. Christian Jr.), The "Vision Thing". Studying Divine Intervention, Budapest: Collegium Budapest Workshop Series 18, 2009; (ed.), Procès de canonisation au Moyen Âge. Aspects juridiques et religieux – Medieval Canonization Processes. Legal and Religious Aspects. École française de Rome, Roma, 2004; “Raccolte di miracoli e loro certificazione nell’Europa centrale,” in Raimondo Michetti (ed.), Notai, miracoli e culto dei santi. Milano: Dott. A Giuffrè editore, 2004, pp. 259-288.
