Skip to main content

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
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-aBetween Oxford and Paris: The Development of the Notion of haecceitas in the Thought of John Duns Scotus
(Language: English)
Dominic Abbott, Faculteit Theologie en Religiewetenschappen, KU Leuven
Index terms: Philosophy, Theology
Paper 623-bDissolving the Border?: Meister Eckhart on the Infinite in the Finite
(Language: English)
Christopher Wojtulewicz, Department of Theology & Religious Studies, King's College London
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.