IMC 2007: Sessions
Session 225: Platinum in Unexpected Places
Monday 9 July 2007, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Platinum Latin |
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| Organiser: | Danuta Shanzer, Department of Classics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign / Dumbarton Oaks Medieval (Latin) Library |
| Moderator/Chair: | John B. Dillon, Memorial Library, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| Paper 225-a | Astrological Treatises: a Treasure Chest for Social Historians (Language: English) Index terms: Learning (The Classical Inheritance), Social History |
| Paper 225-b | Diximus dictumque conscripsimus: On the Relationship of the Written and Spoken Word in Latin Exegesis (Language: English) Index terms: Biblical Studies, Language and Literature - Latin, Learning (The Classical Inheritance), Literacy and Orality, Sermons and Preaching |
| Paper 225-c | Vigilance, Serendipity, and Aurum in stercore (Language: English) Index terms: Biblical Studies, Language and Literature - Latin, Sermons and Preaching, Social History |
| Abstract | Scholars usually read or edit texts for specific reasons that have to do with the content of the text itself. This session is intended to show how extremely productive scholarship can result from result both from reading and noting something that is not the primary 'point' of a text and from alert focus on articulation and mechanics rather than on primary content. Attention to the methodologies used by our speakers should give listeners some helpful tips on how to turn even reading that may appear to be dull into something of genuine substance that can cast light well beyond the text concerned. |