From Sun-Day to the Day of the Lord. The career of a special day in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages

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From Sun-Day to the Day of the Lord. The career of a special day in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages

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Univ.-Prof. Dr. Uta Heil, Institut für Kirchengeschichte, Christliche Archäologie und Kirchliche Kunst; Evangelisch-Theologische Fakultät, Universität Wien
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Sky Lounge, Oskar-Morgenstern Platz 1 (12th floor), 1090 Wien
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Vienna
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Austria
Vom - Bis
10.10.2019 - 12.10.2019
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Uta Heil

The Christian Sunday as a day of rest is one central identity marker of a society shaped by Christianity. However, the development of a Christian Sunday culture took several centuries until the early Middle Ages, although already in 321 AD, Constantine had decreed a law to rest on the sacred Sun-Day.
One reason was probably an intentional distancing from both Jewish Sabbath observation and beliefs in pagan Tagwählerei (unlucky days) and comparable astrological practices. Later on, when this anti-pagan issue diminished, and when pagan cults and calendars lost importance, a Sunday observance and veneration emerged as one element among other aspects of Christianization and sacralization of the Christian society in Late Antiquity, including holy places and holy people.
Especially the sixth century seemed to be an important “watershed” in this respect, when new apocryphal literature and pseudepigraphy dealing with the Sunday was produced. The elevation of Sunday reflected a unification of feasts that were formerly variously celebrated within different social and religious groups.
However, this estimation above is a first suggestion because the history of Sunday veneration after Constantine is a neglected subject in research. In addition, former studies rely on now obsolete decline theories of church life and theology (Legalism, Judaization, Germanization). New insights into the process of Christianization of the Roman Empire, the relationship between East and West and the centuries of the Migration Period have to be taken as a new basis for understanding the emergence of Sunday veneration.
The presentations at the conference deal with varous aspects of this development.

Programm

Thursday, 10 October 2019
Session 1
Michael Durst, Theologische Hochschule Chur
Anmerkungen zum Sonntag in der Alten Kirche
Els Rose, University of Utrecht
Die festo cuncti licentiam habent. Sunday vocabulary
and the organisation of “freedom”
Session 2; Moderation: Clemens Leonhard, Universität Münster
Günter Stemberger, Universität Wien
Sabbat oder Sonntag? Rabbinen und Kirchenväter im Widerstreit
Israel J. Yuval, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
And the Rest is History: Sabbath versus Sunday
Session 3, Moderation: Volker Henning Drecoll, Universität Tübingen
Marie-Ange Rakotoniaina, Emory University
Redefining the Sabbath Rest in the Sermons of Augustine
Ilaria Bultrighini, Einstein Center Chronoi, Freie Universität Berlin
Competing for primacy: Sunday, Saturday, and Thursday in the Roman Imperial period
Session 4
Nadine Pirringer, Svenja Sasse, Stefan Resch Presentation of the Database SOLA: [sola.acdh.oeaw.ac.at]

Friday, 11 October 2019
Session 5, Moderation: Clemens Leonhard, Universität Münster
Harald Buchinger, Universität Regensburg
Grundstrukturen und charakteristische Elemente der Sonntagsfeier in der Alten Kirche
Annette von Stockhausen, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften
Drei Homilien über die Sonntagsruhe
Session 6; Moderation: Veronika Wieser, ÖAW Wien
Volker Henning Drecoll, Universität Tübingen
Sonntag ist nicht gleich Sonntag. Beobachtungen zur Entwicklung der Sonntagsproprien in frühmittelalterlichen Liturgien
Michel Yves Perrin, École practique des Hautes études, Paris
Neue Forschungen über die ersten Fassungen des vom Himmel gefallenen Jesus Christus Briefes über den Sonntag
Session 7; Moderation: Miriam Czock, Universität Duisburg-Essen
Wolfram Kinzig, Universität Bonn
Sonntagsobservanz – Norm und Normabweichung in der Spätantike
Carine van Rhijn, Utrecht University
Teaching the Frankish laity about Sundays in ninth century
Diskussion
Session 8; Moderation: Miriam Czock, Universität Duisburg-Essen
Ian Wood, Leeds University
Hagiography and the canons on Sunday work
Ria Paroubek-Groenewoud, Utrecht University Healing and Illness on Sunday

Saturday, 12 October 2019
Session 9; Moderation: Stefan Schima
Fritz Mitthof, Universität Wien
Sonntag und Kaiser, Reichselite und Armee
Thomas Graumann, Cambridge University
Was geschieht auf einer Synode am Sonntag?
Diskussion
Session 10; Moderation: Uta Heil, Universität Wien
Basema Hamarneh, Universität Wien
Sunday in Late Antique Arabia and Palaestine according to Epigraphy and Hagiography
Sofie Remijsen, University of Amsterdam
Daily life on Sundays
Session 11; Moderation: Moderation: Claudia Rapp, Universität Wien
Michele Salzman, University of California at Riverside
Sundays in Late Antique Rome
Mischa Meier, Universität Tübingen
Der christliche Sonntag im 6. Jahrhundert
Session 12; Moderation: Maximilian Diesenberger, ÖAW Wien
Christian Gastgeber, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien Easter Sunday: Calculation methods in the Greek Church (Byzantine period) and their evidence in manuscripts
Richard Corradini, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien
Propter magna mysteria. Some observations on weekdays in Walahfrid Strabo’s handbook

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Uta Heil

Institut für Kirchengeschichte, Christl. Archäologie und Kirchl. Kunst, Ev.-Theol. Fakultät
Schenkenstrasse 8-10, 1010 Wien
+43 1 4277 32602

uta.heil@univie.ac.at

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