IMC 2006: Sessions
Session 203: The Self before Individualisation: Positions of the 'Individual' in Relation to Self-Reference and Reference to Others
Monday 10 July 2006, 14.15-15.45
| Organisers: | Franz-Josef Arlinghaus, Max-Planck-Institut für europäische Rechtsgeschichte / Geschichte des Mittelalters, Universität Kassel Heike Schlie, Forschungsgruppe Kulturgeschichte & Theologie des Bildes im Christentum, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Michael Clanchy, Institute of Historical Research, University of London |
| Paper 203-a | Investiture and Conscience of Medieval Self: The Case of Anselm of Canterbury (Language: English) Index terms: Philosophy, Religious Life, Science |
| Paper 203-b | Painting in the Late Middle Ages and the Prehistory of Individual Intellectual Property (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - General, Art History - Painting |
| Paper 203-c | Literary Genre, Discourse, or Expression of the Self?: Italian Libri di famiglia and German Housebooks Compared (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Education, Mentalities, Philosophy |
| Abstract | German research on the individual in pre-modern times rightly emphasises the differences rather than the similarities between the modern and the medieval self. It has, for instance, been pointed out that most texts in which persons talk about themselves are strongly determined by general ideas (they may be religious or regarding the class and family he / she belongs to) rather than reflecting individual attitudes. On the other hand, it is clear that the single person´s mind was not completely absorbed by those universal ideas. |