IMC 2014: Sessions
Session 215: Rules of Debate: The Sequel, II - Models, Manners, and Proper Tools: How to Talk and Establish Orthodoxy
Monday 7 July 2014, 14.15-15.45
| 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: | Mayke de Jong, Departement Geschiedenis en Kunstgeschiedenis, Universiteit Utrecht |
| Paper 215-a | Making Ends Meet: Debates on the Last Judgment in Christian Communities of the Late Roman Empire (Language: English) Index terms: Biblical Studies, Ecclesiastical History, Theology |
| Paper 215-b | Jest, Insult, Blasphemy: Civil Discourse and beyond? (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Rhetoric, Theology |
| 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? |