IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 1615: Initiatory Journeys and Heuristic Traversals (and Backwards) From Antiquity to the Middle Ages, II: Crossing Borders to Access Knowledge
Thursday 9 July 2020, 11.15-12.45
| Organiser: | Naïs Virenque, Centre d'Études Supérieures de la Renaissance, Université François Rabelais, Tours |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Antoine Paris, Université Paris-Sorbonne, Paris / Université de Montréal, Québec |
| Paper 1615-a | La science des variantes coraniques au Moyen Âge: un transfert des savoirs d'Occident vers l'Orient (Language: Français) Index terms: Islamic and Arabic Studies, Literacy and Orality, Religious Life, Sermons and Preaching |
| Paper 1615-b | The Crossings of Virtues: Prudentia's Celestial Journey and Arborescent Ethics (Language: English) Index terms: Education, Language and Literature - Latin, Monasticism, Religious Life |
| Paper 1615-c | From a Place to Another: Crossing Boundaries as a Heuristic Process to Discover the World in the Travels of Marco Polo (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - French or Occitan, Literacy and Orality, Mentalities, Social History |
| Abstract | What does crossing a border mean? Our session will address medieval borders through the imaginary issues of the traversal as a transformative process, and assign importance to the Ancient heritage. Is the one who crosses changed by passing through a border and backwards? How is each side of the border also transformed by one's outward and return journey? By keeping in mind that crossing borders is not necessarily a unilateral traversal, and taking into account any type of border (between two countries or spaces, but also between life and death, materiality and imaginality, sacred and profane, etc.), we will wonder to what extent crossing borders can become an initiatory journey and/or a heuristic traversal, able to change representations and to reveal the teeming reality of world and imagination. |