IMC 2013: Sessions
Session 1716: European Perspectives on the Pleasure and Performance of Religious Reading
Thursday 4 July 2013, 14.15-15.45
Sponsor: | Rijksuniversiteit Groningen / University of Aberystwyth / University of Nottingham |
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Organiser: | Elisabeth Salter, Department of English Literature & Creative Writing, Aberystwyth University |
Moderator/Chair: | Elisabeth Salter, Department of English Literature & Creative Writing, Aberystwyth University |
Paper 1716-a | The Intellectual and Sensual Pleasures of Devotion to the Holy Name in Late Medieval England (Language: English) Index terms: Anthropology, Language and Literature - Middle English, Religious Life |
Paper 1716-b | Reading as Acting: The Perforative Experience of Middle Dutch Illustrated Passion Texts and Lives of Christ (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Dutch, Religious Life |
Paper 1716-c | Uncovering the Presence: Performative Religious Reading in Late Medieval Italy (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Italian, Lay Piety, Religious Life |
Abstract | This session takes a European perspective on religious culture to explore devotional practice and the performance of religion. The papers work with three different national perspectives and as a whole the session therefore makes a Europe-wide consideration of religious culture. Rob Lutton’s paper explores the rise in popularity of the cult of the Holy Name of Jesus in England from the 14th to the 16th centuries by examining the appeal of particular doctrinal ideas and the attraction of certain types of devotional practice. Bart Ramakers’ paper looks specifically at the Middle Dutch tradition of illustrated Passion and Lives of Christ texts examining particularly the ways that these texts illicit a performative experience of religious devotion. Sabrina Corbellini’s paper examines in particular the Italian tradition of religious reading focusing on lay readers' approaches to texts and on the process of transformation from reading to meditation, prayer, and mystical experience. |