IMC 2014: Sessions
Session 115: Rules of Debate: The Sequel, I - Constructed Controversies and Imaginary Opponents: Reality Versus Representation
Monday 7 July 2014, 11.15-12.45
| 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: | Irene van Renswoude, Huygens Instituut voor Nederlandse Geschiedenis, Koninklijke Nederlandse Academie van Wetenschappen, Den Haag |
| Paper 115-a | Me, Myself, and I: Imaginary Dialogue and Christian Controversy in Late Antiquity (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Rhetoric, Sermons and Preaching |
| Paper 115-b | Talk Amongst Yourselves: Episcopal Conversations about Orthodoxy and Its Practice in Visigothic Iberia (Language: English) Index terms: Canon Law, Ecclesiastical History, Rhetoric, Theology |
| Paper 115-c | Debating with Arians and All the Rest (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Rhetoric |
| Abstract | This strand of three sessions is a follow-up of last year's strand and 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 fictional constructions or literary representations and the 'actual' practice of debating? This year, we will address a question that was raised during last year's strand concerning the typology of debate: what do we mean when we speak of 'debates' and what are the terms used in the texts and periods that we are studying? |