IMC 2017: Sessions
Session 1202: Eadmer of Canterbury, I: Eadmer's Portrayals of Anselm, His Associates, and Other Canterbury Saints
Wednesday 5 July 2017, 14.15-15.45
| Organisers: | Hilary Powell, Department of English Studies, Durham University Sally N. Vaughn, Department of History, University of Houston, Texas |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Sally N. Vaughn, Department of History, University of Houston, Texas |
| Paper 1202-a | Eadmer's Portrayal of Rochester: Bishop Gundulf and the Subordination of Rochester to Canterbury in Eadmer's Writing and in Reality (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Hagiography, Historiography - Medieval, Political Thought |
| Paper 1202-b | Sifting the Spiritual from the Somatic: Visionary Experiences in the Hagiography of Eadmer of Canterbury (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Historiography - Medieval, Medicine |
| Paper 1202-c | Eadmer's Anselm: The Ethics of a Saint (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Hagiography, Historiography - Medieval, Philosophy |
| Abstract | Eadmer's portrayal of Anselm, one major Canterbury associate, and other Canterbury saints. Paper -a: Eadmer's portrayal of Bishop Gundulf of Rochester as Archbishops Lanfranc's and Anselm's second in command in the administrative structure of the Anglo-Norman church, confirmed by other sources such as Anselm's letters, charters, and other chronicles. Paper -b: How Eadmer uses physiological and medical approaches, derived from previously unsuspected sources, to frame visionary narratives of Anselm and some other Canterbury saints. Paper -c: Eadmer's vision of Anselm's saintly ethics, particularly in Vita Anselmi, compared with Anselm's ethics as derived from his letters and theological works. |