IMC 2009: Sessions
Session 1310: The Boundaries of Free Speech, III: Speaking Truth to Power - Discussion and Conclusions
Wednesday 15 July 2009, 16.30-18.00
| 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: | Irene van Renswoude, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien |
| Respondents: | Courtney Booker, Department of History, University of British Columbia Hildegund Müller, Department of Classics, University of Notre Dame, Indiana |
| Paper 1310-a | The Insular Parrhesiasts: Alcuin, Boniface, Columbanus - Free Speakers Abroad (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Learning (The Classical Inheritance), Rhetoric |
| Paper 1310-b | Bleak Visions: Monastic Criticism of Secular Rulership in the 11th-Century Reich (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Political Thought, Rhetoric |
| Abstract | In this third and final session on 'The Boundaries of Free Speech' the papers will look at instances of outspoken clerics exploiting the 'right' to speak freely; the examples span half a millennium and several cultural areas and the juxtaposition may reveal both continuities and discontinuities in practice and theory - and results. How did early medieval clerics criticize rulers with impunity? What was the role of the rhetoric of free speech in practice? After two papers, there will be room to discuss the papers of all three sessions of the series on 'The Boundaries of Free Speech'. |