IMC 2018: Sessions
Session 250: Scientific, Empirical, Biblical, and Hagiographical Knowledge in the Middle Ages, II: Water and Sea between Science and Religion
Monday 2 July 2018, 14.15-15.45
Sponsor: | School of Arts, English & Languages, Queen's University Belfast |
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Organiser: | Marilina Cesario, School of Arts, English & Languages, Queen's University Belfast |
Moderator/Chairs: | Sarah Baccianti, School of Arts, English & Languages, Queen's University Belfast Marilina Cesario, School of Arts, English & Languages, Queen's University Belfast |
Paper 250-a | One Ocean, Many Seas: Representing the Waters of the Earth on 11th-Century Maps (Language: English) Index terms: Geography and Settlement Studies, Language and Literature - Old English, Learning (The Classical Inheritance) |
Paper 250-b | The Sea in the Old English Orosius (Language: English) Index terms: Geography and Settlement Studies, Language and Literature - Old English, Learning (The Classical Inheritance), Literacy and Orality |
Paper 250-c | Baptism at the Red Sea: Exodus Echoes in Old English Poetry (Language: English) Index terms: Geography and Settlement Studies, Language and Literature - Old English |
Abstract | This session will focus on attitudes to knowledge, which constitutes one of the most complex concepts in the Middle Ages, as suggested by the vast semantic range of the Latin terms commonly translated as 'knowledge', including scientia, cognitio, notitia, eruditio and sapientia. |