IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 1302: 10 Years of Bede at Leeds, III
Wednesday 8 July 2020, 16.30-18.00
| Organisers: | Peter Darby, Department of History, University of Nottingham Máirín MacCarron, Department of History, University of Sheffield |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Arthur Holder, Department of Historical & Cultural Studies of Religion Graduate Theological Union Berkeley |
| Paper 1302-a | Mother of the Son of Thunder: The Virgin Mary in Bede's Poetry (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Theology |
| Paper 1302-b | Revisiting Bede's Miracles: Earth, Water, and Healing in the Historia Ecclesiastica and His Commentary on Genesis (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Language and Literature - Latin |
| Paper 1302-c | Bede and the Issue of Gens (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Language and Literature - Latin |
| Abstract | The session proposers have been organising sessions on Bede / the Age of Bede at the Leeds IMC since 2011, which means that this year will see the 10th consecutive set of sessions. To date we have had 52 individual speakers and 67 papers, and are proposing 9 further papers for 2020. This year's sessions gather together scholars from both sides of the Atlantic to read papers on various aspects of the Age of Bede, in celebration of Bede's fundamental importance to the intellectual culture of the Middle Ages. The sessions provide a forum for the community of scholars built up over a decade's worth of IMC sessions to meet, interact, and share ideas with one another. Paper -a utilises Bede's much understudied poetic corpus to ask questions about his attitude towards the Virgin Mary. Paper -b focuses on the presentation of miracles of healing in Bede's Historia ecclesiastica and Genesis Commentary. Pape r-c investigates how the notion of gens was conceptualised by Bede and presented in his various writings. |