IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 120: Borderline History?: Reading Liturgical Commentaries as Historical Sources, I
Monday 6 July 2020, 11.15-12.45
Organisers: | Miriam Czock, Historisches Institut, Universität Duisburg-Essen Graeme Ward, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien |
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Moderator/Chair: | Carine van Rhijn, Departement Geschiedenis en Kunstgeschiedenis, Universiteit Utrecht |
Paper 120-a | What Is History?: Historical Concepts in Amalarius's and Ruperts of Deutz's Commentaries on the Liturgy (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Liturgy |
Paper 120-b | Liturgy as a Way of Life: Ralph of Battle and Rupert of Deutz on the Transformative Function of the Divine Office (Language: English) Index terms: Liturgy, Mentalities |
Paper 120-c | The Manuscripts of Honorius Augustodunensis's Gemma animae (Language: English) Index terms: Liturgy, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
Abstract | Although liturgical commentaries were produced in vast quantities and very widely read throughout the Middle Ages, modern scholars have tended to dismiss them as derivative texts, undeserving of critical attention. Our contention, however, is that these commentaries are invaluable sources, not least because they allow us to reconstruct contemporary understandings of past, present, and future as they were shaped by the central focus of medieval Christian life: the liturgy. These two sessions seek to rethink the historical value of liturgical commentaries, not only by exploring their distinctive modes of representing time and history but also by asking how they can illuminate the worlds of those who wrote and read them. |