IMC 2018: Sessions
Session 1019: Cities of Readers, I: Shared Devotional Culture
Wednesday 4 July 2018, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | NWO Project 'Cities of Readers', Rijksuniversiteit Groningen |
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| Organiser: | Johanneke Uphoff, Afdeling Geschiedenis, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen |
| Moderator/Chair: | Pieter Boonstra, Afdeling Geschiedenis, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen |
| Paper 1019-a | About 'Amor Dei': Texts and Experiences across Laity and Religious in Late Medieval Italy, 14th and 15th Centuries (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Lay Piety, Mentalities, Religious Life |
| Paper 1019-b | Belief in Business: The Role of Gerard Leeu's (active 1477-1492) Incunabula in the Spirituality of the Late Medieval Low Countries (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Dutch, Printing History, Religious Life |
| Paper 1019-c | Bequeathing Books: Book Donation and Shared Devotional Culture between Lay and Religious in the Late Medieval Low Countries (Language: English) Index terms: Lay Piety, Religious Life |
| Abstract | The research project 'Cities of Readers: Religious Literacies in the Long 15th 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 focuses on the way religious knowledge and religious textuality could be approached in terms of a 'shared culture' crossing the traditional boundaries between lay and religious individuals and groups. The papers will re-discuss the traditional divide between the textual worlds of the laity and the religious; the contacts and networks between individuals and groups, and the creation of 'communities of readers'. |