IMC 2015: Sessions
Session 1108: Social Cohesion, II: In and through Texts
Wednesday 8 July 2015, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | European Research Council Project 'Social Cohesion, Identity & Religion in Europe (SCIRE)' |
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| Organiser: | Clemens Gantner, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien |
| Moderator/Chair: | Rosamond McKitterick, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge |
| Paper 1108-a | Hic et nunc: Early Medieval Social Perceptions in Latin Grammatical Works (Language: English) Index terms: Education, Language and Literature - Latin, Teaching the Middle Ages |
| Paper 1108-b | Hierarchia in the Service of Social Cohesion: Different Interpretations of St Paul's Epistle to Romans in Carolingian Authors (Language: English) Index terms: Biblical Studies, Political Thought, Theology |
| Paper 1108-c | Multilingualism in Middle High German Literature (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - German, Mentalities, Political Thought |
| Abstract | This second session of the SCIRE project deals with more subtle forms of social cohesion, which did not only work on the grand political or theological stage shown in the first session, but can also be detected in medieval texts. Cinzia Grifoni will show that grammars or, more generally, texts conceived as tools for early medieval school teaching do bear hints of social perceptions of that time. Bojana Radovanovic will look at how the notion of hierarchy was understood in interpretations of St Paul's Epistle to the Romans in the works of Gottschalk of Orbais, Hrabanus Maurus and Hincmar of Reims. In the third paper, Ingrid Hartl will explore the positive and negative aspects attributed to multilingualism by taking a look at examples from Middle High German literature. |