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IMC 2021: Sessions

Session 1305: Beyond Time and Space, In Memory of Miriam Czock, IV: New Approaches to Liturgical Exegesis

Wednesday 7 July 2021, 16.30-18.00

Organiser:Graeme Ward, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien
Moderator/Chair:Sarah M. Hamilton, Department of History, University of Exeter
Paper 1305-aLiturgical Austerity in Walahfrid Strabo's Libellus de exordiis
(Language: English)
Thomas Greene, Department of History, Loyola University Chicago
Index terms: Hagiography, Historiography - Medieval, Liturgy, Manuscripts and Palaeography
Paper 1305-bThe Manuscripts of Honorius Augustodunensis's Gemma animae
(Language: English)
Karl Kinsella, Department of History of Art, University of York
Index terms: Hagiography, Historiography - Medieval, Liturgy, Manuscripts and Palaeography
Paper 1305-cLiturgy as a Way of Life: Ralph of Battle and Rupert of Deutz on the Transformative Function of the Divine Office
(Language: English)
Sigbjørn Olsen Sønnesyn, Department of History, Durham University
Index terms: Hagiography, Historiography - Medieval, Liturgy, Manuscripts and Palaeography
Abstract

Miriam Czock in her work has looked at liturgy from different perspectives. Liturgical commentaries were produced in vast quantities and they were very widely read throughout the Middle Ages, yet modern scholars have tended to dismiss them as derivative texts, undeserving of critical attention. This session seeks 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 social and intellectual worlds of those who wrote and read them.