IMC 2015: Sessions
Session 1531: The Reformative Power of Religious Literature, I
Thursday 9 July 2015, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | University of Hull / University of Nottingham |
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| Organisers: | Rob Lutton, Department of History, University of Nottingham Elisabeth Salter, Department of English, University of Hull |
| Moderator/Chair: | Elisabeth Salter, Department of English, University of Hull |
| Paper 1531-a | The Passion in Print: Passion Harmonies from Medieval Tradition to Lutheran Adaptation (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Dutch, Lay Piety, Social History |
| Paper 1531-b | The Holy Name in Late Medieval England: Reformist Religious Reading (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Lay Piety, Social History |
| Paper 1531-c | Ideal Faith: Religious Reading and Reformation of the Self (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Lay Piety, Religious Life |
| Abstract | This is one of two linked sessions exploring the reformative power of religious literatures from a range of perspectives. Session I takes up issues of faith and the reforming self, with discussion of texts of the passion, the holy name and instructional literatures. Folkerts examines vernacular middle Dutch 'passion harmonies' and the evidence they present for enduring personal daily religious reading habits in the reforming era; Lutton examines texts of the Holy Name and the ways they were adapted for specific personal and regional agendas; Mckeon discusses instructional literature and the philosophical frameworks which inform their drive to personal reform. |