IMC 2004: Sessions

Session 516: Memoria: Between Liturgy and Rhetoric

Organisers:	Laura Iseppi, Department of English, New York University Scott Wells, Department of History, California State University, Los Angeles
Moderator/Chair:	Scott Wells, Department of History, California State University, Los Angeles
Paper 516-a	Mnemonic and Memorial Value of the Magi's Star in the Corpus Christi Cycle (Language: English) Laura Iseppi, Department of English, New York University Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Performance Arts - Drama, Religious Life, Rhetoric
Paper 516-b	Rhetorics of Remembrance in the Letter Collection of Abelard and Heloise (Language: English) Scott Wells, Department of History, California State University, Los Angeles Index terms: Philosophy, Religious Life, Rhetoric, Women's Studies
Paper 516-c	Memory in the Ghent Boethius Commentary (Language: English) Annelies van Gijsen, Department of Literature, Universiteit Antwerpen Index terms: Philosophy, Religious Life, Rhetoric, Theology
Abstract	This panel will examine the complex interacton between memoria as liturgical pratice and memoria as a rhetorical or technical tool of composition, focusing on three texts in which the interplay of the two medieval conceptions of memoria is a major theme.