IMC 2017: Sessions
Session 1002: Canterbury in the Age of Bede, I
Wednesday 5 July 2017, 09.00-10.30
Sponsor: | Bedenet.com |
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Organisers: | Peter Darby, Department of History, University of Nottingham Máirín MacCarron, Department of History, University of Sheffield |
Moderator/Chair: | Ian N. Wood, School of History, University of Leeds |
Paper 1002-a | Theodore of Tarsus and the Circle of Maximus the Confessor (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Language and Literature - Greek |
Paper 1002-b | Allegory and the Canterbury School (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Religious Life |
Paper 1002-c | From Syria to England: Canterbury as a Locus of Trans-Mediterranean Knowledge in the 7th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Religious Life, Theology |
Abstract | Building on sessions which have run at the IMC consecutively since 2011, this year two panels are proposed on the subject Canterbury in the Age of Bede (broadly defined to cover the period c. 600-750). Canterbury was established as the principal seat of the Anglo-Saxon Church following Augustine's arrival in Kent at the turn of the 7th century and the centre was crucial to the development of the Anglo-Saxon Church throughout this period. This panel focusses on the influential school which flourished in Canterbury under Archbishop Theodore and Abbot Hadrian in the 7th century. The papers cover: Theodore's career before he arrived in Anglo-Saxon England (Booth); the use of allegorical exegetical strategies in glosses produced at the Canterbury School (Vosper); and the importance of Canterbury as a centre for the reception and transmission of Greek and Syriac knowledge (Siemens). |