IMC 2014: Sessions
Session 315: Rules of Debate: The Sequel, III - Shut Up and Let Me Go: When Is a Debate Done?
Monday 7 July 2014, 16.30-18.00
| 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: | Stuart Airlie, School of Humanities (History), University of Glasgow |
| Respondent: | Jinty Nelson, Department of History, King's College London |
| Paper 315-a | The Usual Suspects: Debating Councils and Capitularies in the Early 9th Century, 813-822 (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Ecclesiastical History, Political Thought |
| Paper 315-b | Watch Your Tone of Voice: The Etiquette of Debate and Discussion, 4th-9th Centuries (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Manuscripts and Palaeography, 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? |