IMC 2015: Sessions
Session 1612: Demons in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, I
Thursday 9 July 2015, 11.15-12.45
Organiser: | Eoghan Ahern, Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic, University of Cambridge |
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Moderator/Chair: | Helen Foxhall Forbes, Department of History, Durham University |
Paper 1612-a | Demonic Bodies and the Medieval Cosmos (Language: English) Index terms: Learning (The Classical Inheritance), Science |
Paper 1612-b | The Demons in Felix's Life of Guthlac (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Language and Literature - Latin |
Paper 1612-c | Demons and Pastors: Knowing and Communicating the Divine in Pope Gregory I's Pastoral Thought (Language: English) Index terms: Philosophy, Theology |
Abstract | This strand examines the ways in which demons were conceived in late antique and early medieval sources and explores their cultural and spiritual roles. The first session comprises three complimentary papers discussing a) the ways in which demons were understood to be in some sense bounded by spatial limitations, and their place in the Christian cosmos; b) the Anglo-Saxon Vita Guthlaci and its relationship to hagiographic conventions; c) the part played by demons in Gregory the Great's understanding of divine knowledge. |