IMC 2013: Sessions
Session 1303: The Rules of Debate in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, II
Wednesday 3 July 2013, 16.30-18.00
| 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: | Yitzhak Hen, Department of History, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva |
| Respondent: | Jinty Nelson, Department of History, King's College London |
| Paper 1303-a | Direct Speech, Public Rhetoric, and Political Ideology in the Mid-9th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Learning (The Classical Inheritance), Political Thought, Rhetoric |
| Paper 1303-b | Alcuin and the Representation of Debate: Contrasts between Epistolary and Didactic Modes (Language: English) Index terms: Education, Language and Literature - Latin, Learning (The Classical Inheritance), Rhetoric |
| Paper 1303-c | Public Religious Debates in 4th- and 5th-Century Africa: Fulgentius and the Vandal Kings (Language: English) |
| 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. |