IMC 2007: Sessions
Session 611: Vernacularity 1300-1550, II: Religious Experience and Debates
Tuesday 10 July 2007, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Institute for Medieval & Early Modern Studies, University of Aberystwyth / University of Kent |
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| Organisers: | Elisabeth Salter, Institute for Medieval & Early Modern Studies (IMEMS) / Department of English Literature & Creative Writing, Aberystwyth University Helen E. Wicker, Centre for Medieval & Early Modern Studies (MEMS), University of Kent |
| Moderator/Chair: | Ian Johnson, School of English, University of St Andrews |
| Paper 611-a | Searching for Words: Vernacular Theology and Middle English Vocabularies of the Religious Self (Language: English) Index terms: Education, Language and Literature - Middle English, Lay Piety |
| Paper 611-b | Debating Heresy: Vernacular Theology in the 15th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Religious Life, Theology |
| Paper 611-c | The Proliferation of Vernacular Christocentric Prayers, Hymns, and Lyrics in Late 15th- and Early 16th-Century England (Language: English) Index terms: Education, Lay Piety, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Religious Life |
| Abstract | Gunning explores emerging Middle English vocabularies of the self in late medieval devotional literature, and their relationship to the theories and vocabularies of medieval anthropology. James’s paper explores John Capgrave and Reginald Pecock’s use of the Latinate debate form in their work, as they engaged with religious issues made controversial by heresy in the fifteenth century. Lutton explores the extraordinary multiplication and dissemination of vernacular devotional literature centred on Christ in pre-Reformation England. He focuses on prayers, hymns and lyrics to explore connections between the proliferation of vernacular Christocentric devotions and the late medieval Church’s strategies for control. |