IMC 2013: Sessions
Session 1204: Joy and Pain: The Role of Suffering and Affliction in Medieval Religious Writing
Wednesday 3 July 2013, 14.15-15.45
Organiser: | Astrid Breith, Deutsche Texte des Mittelalters, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin |
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Moderator/Chair: | Lydia Maria Wegener, Deutsche Texte des Mittelalters, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin |
Paper 1204-a | Authorship and Affliction: Hermanus Contractus and Notker Balbulus (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Language and Literature - German, Monasticism, Religious Life |
Paper 1204-b | Reflecting Maria: On the Illustrations of the Berner Marienleben and Presumed Aspects of Its Reception (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - German, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Religious Life |
Abstract | The session will concentrate on texts deriving from different monastic backgrounds and their strategies of authorship. Paper one shows to what extend the ‘literary' identity of Hermannus Contractus and Notker Balbulus, two monks of the 10th and 11th century, is influenced by a (supposed) handicap. It discusses the relation between physical affliction and the concept of authorship in a monastic context. |