IMC 2018: Sessions
Session 350: Scientific, Empirical, Biblical, and Hagiographical Knowledge in the Middle Ages, III: Saints, Scripture, and Liturgy
Monday 2 July 2018, 16.30-18.00
Sponsor: | School of Arts, English & Languages, Queen's University Belfast |
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Organiser: | Ciaran Arthur, School of Arts, English & Languages, Queen's University Belfast |
Moderator/Chair: | Elisa Ramazzina, School of Arts, English & Languages, Queen's University Belfast |
Paper 350-a | 'You wished to vomit forth words which you had not swallowed down': Imitating Scriptural Obscurity in Early Medieval Texts (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Old English, Learning (The Classical Inheritance), Liturgy, Literacy and Orality |
Paper 350-b | Old English in the Liturgy (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Old English, Language and Literature - Latin, Learning (The Classical Inheritance), Liturgy |
Paper 350-c | The Seven Sleepers in Anglo-Saxon England (Language: English) Index terms: Biblical Studies, Hagiography, 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. |