IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 1313: Recognition across Borders, IV: Boundaries between Selves and Others
Wednesday 8 July 2020, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | Medieval & Early Modern Studies / Institute for Religion & Critical Inquiry, Australian Catholic University, Victoria |
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| Organiser: | Christopher Ocker, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley / San Francisco Theological Seminary |
| Moderator/Chair: | Reindert Falkenburg, Arts & Humanities Division New York University Abu Dhabi |
| Paper 1313-a | While You Are Here: Uncertainties and the (Often Gratuitous) Questioning of the Spirits of the Dead in the High Middle Ages (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Hagiography, Monasticism, Religious Life |
| Paper 1313-b | From the Avowed to the Occasional: Literary Responses in the Post-Medieval Cloister (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Italian, Lay Piety, Theology, Women's Studies |
| Abstract | Each session of the series sessions combines specialists in different periods, places, sources, and/or groups. This one pays particular attention to recognition across boundaries as an element of self-fashioning. These involve the boundary between the living and the dead in high-medieval monastic communities, the process of perception, cognition, and abstraction involved with the recognition of music in Judeo-Arabic philosophy, and the cloister as an imagined ‘boundary' for post-medieval laywomen writers that facilitated literary and spiritual self-identification with their cloistered 'sisters'. |