IMC 2021: Sessions
Session 704: Inbetweenness in Medieval Religious Literature
Tuesday 6 July 2021, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Institutt for lingvistiske, litterære og estetiske studier, Universitetet i Bergen |
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| Organiser: | Aidan Conti, Senter for middelalderstudier, Universitetet i Bergen |
| Moderator/Chair: | Aidan Conti, Senter for middelalderstudier, Universitetet i Bergen |
| Paper 704-a | Transitional Spaces: Paratextual Features in Homiletic Manuscripts from 11th- and 12th-Century England (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Old English, Language and Literature - Latin, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Sermons and Preaching |
| Paper 704-b | Transplanting Religious Literature: The Case of a Medieval Copto-Arabic Apophthegmata Patrum Collection (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Islamic and Arabic Studies, Language and Literature - Greek, Monasticism |
| Abstract | While the demarcation of climes and their ensuant regions and parts centers states of distinction and differences, the notion of inbetweenness emphasizes liminality as a transitional place of becoming. This session proposes to challenge the disciplinary borders imposed on structures of knowledge by examining textual and linguistic negotiations of inbetweeness in medieval religious writing. By emphasizing the being-in-the-worldness of medieval religious writing, this sessions aims to create ambiguous spaces in which more creative interpretative stances and understandings of the parameters of religious thought are possible. Consequently, papers for this session do not address a single period, region or genre, but rather the phenomenon of inbetweeness as a driver of social communication within and amongst discursive communities. |