IMC 2009: Sessions
Session 1123: The Boundaries of Free Speech, I: Beyond Parrhesia
Wednesday 15 July 2009, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Parrhesiasts Anonymous |
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| Organisers: | Mary Garrison, Department of History, University of York Irene van Renswoude, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien |
| Moderator/Chair: | Mary Garrison, Department of History, University of York |
| Paper 1123-b | Institutionalized Parrhesia?: Satire in Early Medieval Ireland (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Celtic, Learning (The Classical Inheritance), Rhetoric |
| Paper 1123-c | Speaking Fearlessly: Exploring the Concept of Parrhesia in Anglo-Saxon Adaptations of Late Antique Martyr Narratives (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Learning (The Classical Inheritance), Rhetoric |
| Paper 1123-c | The Freedom of the Imagination in Hrabanus Maurus's De passione Domini (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Religious Life |
| Abstract | The papers in last year's strand on 'parrhesia and the rhetoric of free speech' explored the afterlife of classical ideas on free speech (parrhesia) in the Early Middle Ages. This year the Parrhesiasts Anonymous will address themes that emerged last year, with the strand title: 'The Boundaries of Free Speech'. In this first session, the papers will explore how far we can take parrhesia-research into the vernacular Early Middle Ages, and what role the term might have played in the awareness of writers from the Insular world. Learned Anglo-Saxons were indebted to Latin rhetoric (and even Latin models) for their tradition's prose style. Irish writers, in contrast, were the beneficiaries of a thriving vernacular tradition of literature, rhetoric, and poetics, as well as of formidable and distinctive Latin learning. |