Twisten via heiligen. Hagiografische dialogen tussen de Gentse abdijen Sint-Pieters en Sint-Baafs, 941-1079

Abstract

Debates are excellent linguistic-ethnographic targets.They are textual/discursive, they produce discourses and metadiscourses, and they result in a battery of texts that can be borrowed, quoted, echoed, vulgarized etc.In sum, they are moments of textual formation and transformation, in which minority views can be transformed into majority views and vice versa, in which group-specific discourses can be incorporated into a master text, in which a variety of discursive means are mobilized and deployed (styles, genres, arguments, claims to authority), and in which sociopolitical alliances are shaped or altered in discourse.(Jan Blommaert)l In de crypte van de Gentse Sint-Baafskathedraal treft men tussen de laat-vijftiende en vroeg-zestiende-eeuwse schilderingen op de pijlers en gewelven een afbeelding aan waarop de heiligen Bavo en Amalberga naast elkaar zijn voorgesteld (Afbeelding 1 ). 2 Be ide personages staan