IMC 2004: Sessions

Session 1322: Conflicts within the Christian Tradition: Private Lives / Public Codes

Organiser:	Hans Popper, Department of German, Swansea University
Moderator/Chair:	Carol Magner, Department of German, King's College London
Paper 1322-a	Faith and Force in St Augustine's Thought (Language: English) Hans Popper, Department of German, Swansea University Index terms: Political Thought, Religious Life
Paper 1322-b	The Embodied Soul in Old English Poetry (Language: English) Margrét Gunnarsdóttir Champion, Department of English, Göteborgs Universitet Index terms: Language and Literature - Old English, Religious Life
Paper 1322-c	A Christian Courtier?: Conflicting Ideologies in Chrétien de Troyes' Perceval (Language: English) Kristina Hildebrand, Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle, Högskolan i Halmstad Index terms: Language and Literature - French/ Occitan, Religious Life
Abstract	The session focuses on conflicts, or tensions, within the Christian tradition between individual consciousness and religious culture. The texts we consider exemplify in various ways the demands, paradoxes, and negotiations incurred by such a confrontation. Hans Popper examines the strife betweeb pacifist piety and forceful action in St Augustine's Confessions and City of God. Margrét Gunnarsdóttir Champuion reads Old English poetry in the light of contradictory conceptions of the soul. Kristina Hildebrand's concern is with the figure of the knight as a site of ideological clash in Chrétien de Troyes' Perceval, ou Le Conte du Graal.