IMC 2019: Sessions
Session 1217: Vernacular Devotion and Materiality
Wednesday 3 July 2019, 14.15-15.45
| Organiser: | Jennifer Brown, Department of English, Marymount Manhattan College, New York |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Ryan Perry, Centre for Medieval & Early Modern Studies (MEMS), University of Kent |
| Paper 1217-a | Delightful Fruits, Bitter Weeds, and Poison Covered with Sugar: Textual Consumption and Spiritual Identity in Birgittine Devotional Literature (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Religious Life |
| Paper 1217-b | Touching, Reading, Speaking: The Materiality of Devotional Language in Middle English Texts (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 1217-c | The Everyday Materiality of Carthusian Richard Methley's Visionary Spirituality (Language: English) Index terms: Manuscripts and Palaeography, Religious Life |
| Paper 1217-d | Clothing with the Resurrection: The Materiality of the Risen Christ in Carmelite Devotion in the Late Middle Ages (Language: English) Index terms: Mentalities, Religious Life, Theology |
| Abstract | This panel will look at the ways in which vernacular devotional literature and texts engage with the material world and engage their readers with the materiality of the texts themselves (as codices, as vellum, and in the imagery of the vocabulary). While each paper is approaching a different kind of material sensibility that is highlighted in the texts, all are investigating how the material both informs and conflicts with the sense of the spiritual and the purpose of devotional writing to elevate its readers beyond the material. |