IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 1020: Inbetweenness in Medieval Religious Literature
Wednesday 8 July 2020, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | Institutt for lingvistiske, litterære og estetiske studier, Universitetet i Bergen |
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| Organiser: | Aidan Conti, Senter for middelalderstudier, Universitetet i Bergen |
| Moderator/Chair: | Jens Eike Schnall, Institutt for lingvistiske litterære og estetiske studier Universitetet i Bergen |
| Paper 1020-a | Transitional Spaces: Paratextual Features in 11th- and 12th-Century English Homiletic Manuscripts (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Old English, Language and Literature - Latin, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Sermons and Preaching |
| Paper 1020-b | Transplanting Religious Literature: The Case of a Medieval Copto-Arabic Apophthegmata Patrum Collection (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Islamic and Arabic Studies, Language and Literature - Greek, Monasticism |
| Paper 1020-c | Types of Knowledge and Discursive Practices in Late Medieval Scholastic Texts from Catalonia (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Language and Literature - Spanish or Portuguese, Sermons and Preaching, Theology |
| Abstract | While the question of borders centers states of distinction and differences, the notion of inbetweenness emphasizes liminality as a transitional place of becoming. This session proposes to challenge the disciplinary borders imposed on structures of knowledge by examining textual and linguistic negotiations of inbetweenes in medieval religious writing. By emphasizing the being-in-the-worldness of medieval religious writing, this session aims to create ambiguous spaces in which more creative interpretative stances and understandings of the parameters of religious thought are possible. Consequently, papers for this session do not address a single period, region or genre, but rather the phenomenon of inbetweeness as a driver of social communication within and amongst discursive communities. |