IMC 2012: Sessions
Session 1027: Versified Theology in the Late Middle Ages
Wednesday 11 July 2012, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | Lollard Society |
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| Organiser: | Mishtooni Carys Anne Bose, Christ Church College, University of Oxford |
| Moderator/Chair: | Mishtooni Carys Anne Bose, Christ Church College, University of Oxford |
| Paper 1027-a | The Form of the Form of Living: Versification and Didacticism in Middle English (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Lay Piety, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 1027-b | 'Keep Well Christ's Commandments': Manuscript Evidence for the Significance of Versification in the Vernacular Versions of the Decalogue, c. 1350-1500 (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Lay Piety, Literacy and Orality, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 1027-c | Biblical Latin Versifications in the 15th-Century Miscellanies (Language: English) Index terms: Lay Piety, Literacy and Orality, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Abstract | The papers in this session are situated at the nexus of vernacular theology, didacticism and versified theology. We ask why theological, biblical or catechetical materials were versified in the late Middle Ages and generate answers from the study of manuscripts, considering what they may have to tell us about the production of literary materials and their relationships with particular forms of piety; about regional expressions of piety and literacy; and about the relationship between didactic aims and reading practices, as these were realised in England and elsewhere during our period. |