IMC 2018: Sessions
Session 1119: Cities of Readers, II: The Performance of Writing
Wednesday 4 July 2018, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | NWO Project 'Cities of Readers', Rijksuniversiteit Groningen |
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| Organiser: | Sabrina Corbellini, Oudere Nederlandse Letterkunde Rijksuniversiteit Groningen Oude Kijk in 't Jatstraat 26 9712 EK GRONINGEN |
| Moderator/Chair: | Johanneke Uphoff, Afdeling Geschiedenis, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen |
| Paper 1119-a | The Manuscripts of the 'Coutume de Normandie': Between Legal Uses and Religious Consciousness (Language: English) Index terms: Lay Piety, Literacy and Orality, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Religious Life |
| Paper 1119-b | Performing Scribal Identity in Medieval English Devotional Manuscripts (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Lay Piety, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Religious Life |
| Paper 1119-c | 'Scripto per me': The Performance of Writing in Late Medieval Italy (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Italian, Literacy and Orality, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| 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 will focus on the 'performance of writing', i.e. on the study of the act of writing as an intellectual, religious, and devotional activity, as well as a fundamental step in the formation of a literate persona. It will approach writing in terms of materiality, cultural, and religious practices, of the creation of dedicated conceptual and physical spaces, and of 'reflective and reflexive relationships' between the writer and the writing spaces (JD Bolter, Writing Space). |