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IMC 2014: Sessions

Session 1329: New Communities of Interpretation: Religion in Europe, c. 1300-1550, III - Cultural Transmission

Wednesday 9 July 2014, 16.30-18.00

Sponsor:COST Action IS 1301 'New Communities of Interpretation: Contexts, Strategies & Processes of Religious Transformation in Late Medieval & Early Modern Europe'
Organiser:Elisabeth Salter, Department of English Literature & Creative Writing, Aberystwyth University
Moderator/Chair:Sabrina Corbellini, Oudere Nederlandse Letterkunde Rijksuniversiteit Groningen Oude Kijk in 't Jatstraat 26 9712 EK GRONINGEN
Paper 1329-aImaginary Spaces of Meditation: From the Art of Memory to Ars Meditativa
(Language: English)
Farkas Gabor Kiss, Department for Early Hungarian Literature, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Literacy and Orality, Manuscripts and Palaeography
Paper 1329-bFranciscus de Mayronis: Tractatus de Passione Domini
(Language: English)
Riccardo Burgazzi, Institute of Greek & Latin Studies, Univerzita Karlova, Praha
Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Religious Life, Theology
Abstract

The sessions aim at presenting the first results of the collaborative project 'New Communities of Interpretation: Contexts, Strategies and Processes of Religious Transformation in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe' (COST Action 1S 1301). Challenging stereotypical descriptions of exclusions of lay and non-Latinate people from religious and cultural life, the project concentrates on the reconstruction of the process of religious emancipation of the laity and the creation of 'new communities of interpretations' alongside the traditional 'respublica clericorum'. The sessions will investigate several aspects of this fundamental moment and complex turning point in European and social history.