IMC 2018: Sessions
Session 209: Transcultural Approaches to the Bible: Exegesis and Historical Writing in the Medieval Worlds, II
Monday 2 July 2018, 14.15-15.45
Sponsor: | Bible & Historiography in Transcultural Iberian Societies, 8th-12th Centuries, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien / FWF Project |
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Organiser: | Matthias Martin Tischler, Institut d'Estudis Medievals, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona |
Moderator/Chair: | Stefan Donecker, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien |
Paper 209-a | The Chronicle of Sampiro, the Arabs, and the Bible: 11th-Century Christian-Iberian Strategies of Identifying the Cultural and Religious 'Other' (Language: English) Index terms: Biblical Studies, Historiography - Medieval, Pagan Religions, Theology |
Paper 209-b | The Armies of Gog and Magog?: Interpreting Nomadic Invasions as Apocalyptic Events in Western Christian, Eastern Christian, and Islamic Sources (Language: English) Index terms: Biblical Studies, Byzantine Studies, Historiography - Medieval, Islamic and Arabic Studies |
Paper 209-c | How to Fit the 'Livs' into Sacred History?: Identifying the Cultural 'Other' in the Chronicles of the Livonian Crusade (Language: English) Index terms: Biblical Studies, Crusades, Historiography - Medieval, Pagan Religions |
Abstract | The core idea behind this panel of three sessions is to bring together global scholarship working on the role of the Bible in the transcultural societies of the Euro-Mediterranean world and beyond in a strictly comparative and multidisciplinary manner. By focussing on the biblical background of perceptions of the religious and cultural 'Self' and 'Other' in the Mediterranean world and the Baltic Sea we will identify commonalities and differences of the 'uses of the Bible' in these worlds, and thus entangle and contrast studies on Bible manuscripts, their exegesis and their use for historical writing in the various medieval worlds. |