IMC 2013: Sessions
Session 1203: The Rules of Debate in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, I
Wednesday 3 July 2013, 14.15-15.45
| Organisers: | Janneke Raaijmakers, Afdeling Middeleeuwse Geschiedenis, Universiteit Utrecht Irene van Renswoude, Huygens Instituut voor Nederlandse Geschiedenis, Koninklijke Nederlandse Academie van Wetenschappen, Den Haag |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Maximilian Diesenberger, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien |
| Paper 1203-a | Debating Christ in the 6th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Rhetoric, Theology |
| Paper 1203-b | Arguing Impudently: Claudius of Turin (d. 827) versus Dungal of Pavia (d. 828) (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Religious Life, Rhetoric, Theology |
| Paper 1203-c | The Matrix Reloaded: Late Antique Models for Conducting a Debate (Language: English) Index terms: Learning (The Classical Inheritance), Rhetoric, Theology |
| Abstract | This strand of two sessions deals with debates, discussions, and religious controversies in late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages. The speakers will investigate which formal and informal guidelines regulated these debates and analyse the methods of discussion that were employed. What were the social and rhetorical norms for Christians arguing amongst themselves? What was, moreover, the relation between oral debates and literary discussions or epistolary, intellectual disputations? Another issue that will be addressed in these sessions is to what extent late antique representations of Christian disputes provided a model for developing the procedures and modes of argumentation of early medieval debates. |