IMC 2008: Sessions
Session 206: Parrhesia and the Rhetoric of Free Speech, II: Parrhesiasts on Trial
Monday 7 July 2008, 14.15-15.45
Sponsor: | Parrhesiasts Anonymous |
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Organisers: | Mary Garrison, Department of History, University of York Irene van Renswoude, Research Institute for History & Culture, Universiteit Utrecht |
Moderator/Chair: | Hildegund Müller, Kirchenväterkommission, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien |
Paper 206-a | Preaching the Word of God: The Deployment of Parrhesia in Prudentius' Peristephanon (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Language and Literature - Latin, Learning (The Classical Inheritance), Rhetoric |
Paper 206-b | Speaking Without Permission: The Autobiography of a Notorious Critic (Rather of Verona) (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Learning (The Classical Inheritance), Rhetoric |
Paper 206-c | Restrictions on Free Speech at Abelard's Trials for Heresy in 1121 and 1141 (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Rhetoric |
Abstract | This second session devoted to parrhesia will examine the practice of free speech -and the restrictions on it- in trials. The martyr's parrhesiastic speech to his or her persecutors is constantly in evidence in early Christian passiones. Christine Philips' paper will consider Prudentius's deployment of parrhesia in the Peristephanon; Irene van Renswoude's paper will illuminate the original (and often misunderstood) parrhesia of Rather of Verona when he put himself on trial in his autobiography; Michael Clanchy's paper will use the concept of parrhesia to shed new light on the events of Abelard's heresy trials. |