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History Day Collaboration: Maximizing Resources To Serve Students, Thomas D. Steman, Patricia Post
History Day Collaboration: Maximizing Resources To Serve Students, Thomas D. Steman, Patricia Post
Library Faculty Publications
In tough economic times, History Day provides an excellent opportunity for units at a university and interested parties in the community to collaborate in new and interesting ways. A focus on collaboration at St. Cloud State University (SCSU) helped ensure that History Day participants in central Minnesota had a more level playing field with their counterparts in the Twin Cities area. Strong relationships were built over three years of programming, which has become a stabilizing force as members of the team weather more new challenges due to the economic recession.
Evidence Of Sanctity: Record-Keeping And Canonization At The Turn Of The 13th Century, Michelle Light
Evidence Of Sanctity: Record-Keeping And Canonization At The Turn Of The 13th Century, Michelle Light
Library Faculty Publications
In 1234, the papacy asserted an exclusive right to canonize saints. To gain control over the canonization process, popes required increasingly specific written evidence from communities about their saints and developed investigative procedures to authenticate the communities’ miraculous evidence. Gathering written testimony for review in Rome was an act of domination over local processes for sanctifying community members. Not only did papal record-keeping remove decision-making from local hands, but it also enabled review of correct belief, structured community responses to the sacred, and provided an effective display of papal rights. During the process of St. Gilbert of Sempringham in 1201–1203, …