IMC 2011: Sessions

Session 605: William of Malmesbury on Lamentations

Tuesday 12 July 2011, 11.15-12.45

Sponsor:	Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library Latin Series
Organiser:	Michael Winterbottom, Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford
Moderator/Chair:	Michael Clanchy, Institute of Historical Research, University of London
Paper 605-a	Another Case of William's Extraordinary Reading (Language: English) Rodney M. Thomson, School of History & Classics, University of Tasmania Index terms: Biblical Studies, Language and Literature - Latin, Learning (The Classical Inheritance), Monasticism
Paper 605-b	Secretum internae uisionis: The Introspective Reader and the Pilgrim Soul in William's Commentary (Language: English) Sigbjørn Olsen Sønnesyn, / Centre for Medieval Studies, Universitetet i Bergen Index terms: Biblical Studies, Language and Literature - Latin, Philosophy, Theology
Paper 605-c	Bringing Style to Exegesis (Language: English) Michael Winterbottom, Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford Index terms: Biblical Studies, Language and Literature - Latin, Learning (The Classical Inheritance)
Abstract	The participants in this panel are engaged in producing for Corpus Christianorum an edition of a previously unpublished Commentary on Lamentations written by the celebrated English historian William of Malmesbury around 1130; this is William's only foray into biblical exegesis, but it is in many ways characteristic of its many-sided author. The book should be in the press by the time of the Congress. The speakers will provide an introduction to this new and interesting text, discussing its purpose and historical background, the sources and style that it employs, and the thought-world that it reveals.