IMC 2016: Sessions
Session 709: Cities of Readers, III: Navigating Spaces - Performative Religious Reading
Tuesday 5 July 2016, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Project 'Cities of Readers', Rijksuniversiteit Groningen |
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| Organiser: | Joanka van der Laan, Oudere Nederlandse Letterkunde, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen |
| Moderator/Chair: | Sabrina Corbellini, Oudere Nederlandse Letterkunde Rijksuniversiteit Groningen Oude Kijk in 't Jatstraat 26 9712 EK GRONINGEN |
| Paper 709-a | From Church Wall to Prayer Roll: Place, Media, Memory, and the Performative Reading of Erthe unto Erthe (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Lay Piety |
| Paper 709-b | Setting the Stage for Reading: Spatial Demarcation in a Middle Dutch Life of Christ (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Dutch, Lay Piety |
| Paper 709-c | 'Go into a secluded space': Performative Reading in Some Late Medieval Devotional Texts from the Low Countries (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Dutch, Lay Piety |
| Abstract | The research project 'Cities of Readers: Religious Literacies in the Long Fifteenth Century' aims at reconstructing the impact and the diffusion of religious readership and the making of religious knowledge among lay believers and to study their active role in this process. This session will focus on the ways medieval readers bodily engaged in navigating devotional space. This spatiality may comprise religious texts themselves; the real or imaginary places these evoked; as well as the spaces and places where they were actually read. This session aims to define reading as a performative process, spatially structuring religious experience and memory. |