IMC 2021: Sessions
Session 623: Intellectual Climates in the Medieval Mystical Tradition, I: Philosophical Perspectives
Tuesday 6 July 2021, 11.15-12.45
Sponsor: | Mystical Theology Network / University of Oxford |
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Organiser: | Louise Nelstrop, St Benet's Hall, University of Oxford / Department of Theology & Religious Studies, York St John University |
Moderator/Chair: | Rob Faesen, Institute for the Study of Spirituality, KU Leuven / Ruusbroecgenootschap, Universiteit Antwerpen |
Paper 623-a | Between Oxford and Paris: The Development of the Notion of haecceitas in the Thought of John Duns Scotus (Language: English) Index terms: Philosophy, Theology |
Paper 623-b | Dissolving the Border?: Meister Eckhart on the Infinite in the Finite (Language: English) Index terms: Philosophy, Theology |
Abstract | The sessions sponsored by the Mystical Theology Network will explore the intellectual climates in which medieval mystical texts were written, circulated, read and received by analysing these texts from philosophical, theological, literary, historical, and codicological perspectives. The first session focuses on philosophical perspectives, exploring the development of Scotus' thought between Oxford and Paris and questions of the relationship between the finite and the infinite in Meister Eckhart and Nicholas of Cusa. The second session focuses on medieval mystical written in the medieval Low Countries, and specifically on the work of Hadewijch, John of Ruusbroec, and Marguerite Porete. Finally, the third session focuses on the reception of texts through processes of translation and redaction and the way in which these adapted texts shed light on the interests, priorities and suspicions of readers, redactors, and translators in different contexts. |