IMC 2015: Sessions
Session 1308: Social Cohesion, III: The Bible and Historiography in the Euromediterranean World
Wednesday 8 July 2015, 16.30-18.00
| 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: | Gerda Heydemann, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien / Institut für Geschichte, Universität Wien |
| Paper 1308-a | Biblical History as a Tool of Integration and Distinction in Gothic Historiography (Language: English) Index terms: Biblical Studies, Historiography - Medieval, Political Thought |
| Paper 1308-b | Iberian Bible Manuscripts as Modes of Transcultural Historical Perception (Language: English) Index terms: Biblical Studies, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Political Thought |
| Paper 1308-c | Bible and Biblical Exegesis in the Transcultural Iberian Historical Writing (Language: English) Index terms: Biblical Studies, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Political Thought |
| Abstract | This session will show how the Christian transcultural societies of the Early and Central Middle Ages compared themselves with the peoples known from the Old Testament and with their cultural and religious circumstances. This will be done from the perspective of selected Bible manuscripts and historical works. Philipp Dörler looks at the works of 6th-century historian Jordanes and the 7th-century bishop Isidore of Seville who pursue different strategies to anchor the Goths in universal history. He will investigate how biblical concepts found in these texts could be used either to integrate the Goths in or to distinguish them from the cultural and religious 'Other'. Matthias Tischler and Patrick Marschner then concentrate on the Iberian Peninsula under Muslim rule: The presence of Muslims and Christians entailed numerous changes of perspective of the respective cultural and religious 'Other'. The two papers try to show from the perspective of selected Bible manuscripts and historical works how the Christian Iberian transcultural societies placed themselves with regard to the Old Testament. |