IMC 2014: Sessions
Session 1333: Heresy and Repression, III: Nuances in Polemical Discourses
Wednesday 9 July 2014, 16.30-18.00
Sponsor: | Department for the Study of Religions, Masaryk University, Brno |
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Organiser: | David Zbíral, Department for the Study of Religions, Masarykova univerzita, Brno |
Moderator/Chair: | Justine Trombley, St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies, University of St Andrews |
Paper 1333-a | Legitimizing Violence in Cistercian Anti-Heretical Discourses, 1140-1209: Tendencies and Nuances (Language: English) Index terms: Religious Life, Rhetoric, Sermons and Preaching, Theology |
Paper 1333-b | Handbooks of Heresy: A Discussion of the Theological Discourses on Heresy in the 12th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Religious Life, Rhetoric, Sermons and Preaching, Theology |
Paper 1333-c | Nuancing the Errors of the Jews: Talmud and Heresy in 13th-Century Anti-Jewish Polemics (Language: English) Index terms: Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Rhetoric, Sermons and Preaching, Theology |
Abstract | This session inquires into medieval European polemical discourses against heresy and beyond. The speakers will contend that polemical discourses, sometimes thought of as one stereotypical discourse on 'the Other', are in fact quite diversified. They cannot be reduced to one clear image of the enemy; instead, they generate multiple images, and often yield quite valuable historical data. |