IMC 2019: Sessions
Session 853: It's Personal: The Impact of Lived Experience on the Conceptualization of the Sacred, III
Tuesday 2 July 2019, 16.30-18.00
| Organiser: | Einat Klafter, Cohn Institute for the History & Philosophy of Science & Ideas, Tel Aviv University |
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| Moderator/Chair: | John Arblaster, Institute for the Study of Spirituality, KU Leuven / Ruusbroecgenootschap, Universiteit Antwerpen |
| Paper 853-a | Visio, hic et nunc: Time and Space as Personal Indicators of Sacred Experiences in the Medieval Female Mystics of Southern France, 13th-14th Centuries (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - French or Occitan, Theology, Women's Studies |
| Paper 853-b | Sanctity in Progress: Gregory of Tours's Self-Perception of His Own Sanctity (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Language and Literature - Latin, Liturgy, Theology |
| Paper 853-c | Sisters of the Risen: The Difficult Holiness of Christina the Astonishing, 1150-2017 (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Latin, Theology, Women's Studies |
| Abstract | Scholarship on the lived experiences of female mystics generally focuses on how these experiences contributed to the construction of holy women's selfhood and their wider social roles. Less attention has been paid to how such personal histories influenced the conceptualization of the divine within late-medieval female affective piety. The papers will examine the different articulations of the unio mystica in light of the individual experiences of holy women and men, focusing in particular on how they were harnessed in the construction of sanctity. The session as a whole will explore how such an approach allows us to look at the work of late-medieval mystics and religious authors no longer as a homogenous corpus but as an ensemble of unique and idiosyncratic texts. |