IMC 2009: Sessions
Session 1205: Medieval Urban Literacy, VIII: Remembrance of the Dead in Writing in the Urban Environment of the Low Countries - Devotion and Commerce
Wednesday 15 July 2009, 14.15-15.45
Sponsor: | Medieval Urban Literacy Project |
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Organiser: | Paul Trio, Faculteit Letteren en Wijsbegeerte, KU Leuven |
Moderator/Chair: | Paul Trio, Faculteit Letteren en Wijsbegeerte, KU Leuven |
Paper 1205-a | Remembrance and Literacy: Memorial Practices of the Secular Clergy of Bruges in the 15th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Literacy and Orality, Religious Life |
Paper 1205-b | Late Medieval Remembrance of the Dead as a Tool in the Cultural Construction of the Family (Language: English) Index terms: Literacy and Orality, Social History |
Abstract | This is one of a series of sessions on medieval urban literacy. It concerns a theme which was discussed also at last year's IMC, in the session 'Varieties of Urban Literacy, III: From City to Heaven - Urban Testaments and Literate Mentalities'. This year, the Low Countries are at the centre of our attention: epigraphy, the memorial practices of the secular clergy (of Bruges) and remembrance of the dead as a tool in the cultural construction of the family - all primarily in urban environments. |