IMC 2012: Sessions
Session 1526: Do As You Are Told: The Transmission of Morals and Knowledge in Middle Dutch Literature, 14th-15th Centuries
Thursday 12 July 2012, 09.00-10.30
| Organiser: | Youri Desplenter, Vakgroep Nederlandse literatuur, Universiteit Gent |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Geert Warnar, Institute for Cultural Disciplines, Universiteit Leiden |
| Paper 1526-a | Reading the Dietsche Doctrinale: Marginalia in Manuscript Den Haag, KB: 76 E 5 (Beatrijs Manuscript, c. 1374) (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Dutch, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Mentalities |
| Paper 1526-b | The Ten Commandments and the Ideal of Introspective Individuation in the Late Middle Ages, c. 1300-c. 1550 (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Dutch, Mentalities, Religious Life |
| Paper 1526-c | The Construction of Knowledge in Late Medieval Travel Narratives in the Vernacular (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Dutch, Rhetoric |
| Abstract | From the 14th century on, Middle Dutch literature was increasingly enriched with moral-didactic writings, initially mainly based on authoritative (Latin) sources. That goes for Dietsche Doctrinale (1345; based on De amore et dilectione Dei et proximi by Albertanus of Brescia), and for 14th- and 15th-century treatises on the Ten Commandments. By the end of the 15th century, European intellectual culture had transformed into a critical and empirical mindset. Travel narratives form a clear example of this mutation. In this session, the ways knowledge and ethics were transmitted in Middle Dutch moral-didactic writings from various subgenres will be discussed and contextualized. |