IMC 2011: Sessions
Session 1204: Peter Abelard & Liberal Arts, III: The Semantics of Temporality
Wednesday 13 July 2011, 14.15-15.45
| Organiser: | Babette Hellemans, Instituut voor Geschiedenis, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Michael Clanchy, Institute of Historical Research, University of London |
| Paper 1204-a | Abelard on the Hexaemeron (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Latin, Rhetoric |
| Paper 1204-b | The Poetics of Abelard's ingenium (Language: English) Index terms: Education, Historiography - Medieval, Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Philosophy |
| Paper 1204-c | Trapping the Future: Abelard's Multi-Layered Image Building (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Latin, Rhetoric |
| Abstract | This third session entitled 'Peter Abelard & the Liberal Arts' will focus on the understanding of time, sequences and narrative in Abelard's work and how Creation relates to (self-)knowledge. The first paper will discuss notions of 12th-century 'humanism' and the adoption of a 'method' (artes liberales) which is ontologically anchored. As a sequel, the second paper discusses whether and how the liberal arts are anchored with respect to the notion of the undivided Self, and questions if the notion of 'ingenium' suggest the existence of a more free-floating, improvised, method. The third paper evaluates whether the current scholarly interpretations of rhetorical 'image-building' in the Historia Calamitatum still function today. |