IMC 2017: Sessions

Session 314: Borders and Borderlands in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, III: Intellectual Boundaries

Sponsor:	Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Bristol
Organiser:	Anke Holdenried, Department of History, University of Bristol
Moderator/Chair:	Helen Fulton, Department of English, University of Bristol
Paper 314-a	Boundaries of Science: Scholastic Branding of Gentile Philosophy as Heresy (Language: English) Ann Giletti, Faculty of Theology & Religion, University of Oxford Index terms: Philosophy, Religious Life, Science, Theology
Paper 314-b	Theology over Enemy Borderlines: Translating Ibn Tumart in 13th-Century Toledo (Language: English) Teresa Witcombe, Department of History, University of Exeter / Department of Historical Studies, University of Bristol Index terms: Education, Islamic and Arabic Studies, Theology
Paper 314-c	Negotiating the Boundaries of Time: The Hebrew Prophets and 12th-Century Christian Learning (Language: English) Anke Holdenried, Department of History, University of Bristol Index terms: Biblical Studies, Ecclesiastical History, Theology
Abstract	This multi-disciplinary session considers the intellectual strategies at play in literary and religious communication in the 12th and 13th centuries. How, in an intellectual universe comprising Graeco-Roman, Christian, Jewish, and Muslim traditions, did medieval thinkers negotiate the boundaries between different beliefs and cultures?