IMC 2007: Sessions
Session 1620: Augustine and After: Medieval Civitates Dei
Thursday 12 July 2007, 11.15-12.45
Organiser: | Jess Paehlke, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto |
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Moderator/Chair: | Jess Paehlke, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto |
Paper 1620-a | The Image of the City of God in the Writings of Elizabeth of Schönau and Hildegard of Bingen (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Monasticism, Religious Life, Women’s Studies |
Paper 1620-b | Representations of the City of God in 12th-Century Manuscripts of Augustine's De Civitate Dei (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Painting, Language and Literature - Latin, Theology |
Paper 1620-c | The City of Virtue: Al-Farabi's Revisions of Augustine's City of God (Language: English) Index terms: Islamic and Arabic Studies, Language and Literature - Latin, Philosophy, Political Thought |
Abstract | One of the many ways in which Augustine's De civitate Dei influenced medieval thinkers, writers, and artists was through the conception it provided them of an ideal heavenly city. This interdisciplinary session will address in three papers the impact and adaptation of Augustine's description of the City of God by a variety of figures from the 10th-12th centuries. This session will consider theological, philosophical, and visual re-interpretations of Augustine's ideal city in very different contexts: in the golden age of the medieval Islamic world, among monastic women in Germany, and by manuscript illuminators. |