IMC 2021: Sessions
Session 823: Intellectual Climates in the Medieval Mystical Tradition, III: Manuscript Transmissions and Texts in Translation and Redaction
Tuesday 6 July 2021, 16.30-18.00
Sponsor: | Mystical Theology Network / KU Leuven |
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Organiser: | Rob Faesen, Institute for the Study of Spirituality, KU Leuven / Ruusbroecgenootschap, Universiteit Antwerpen |
Moderator/Chair: | Dominic Abbott, Faculteit Theologie en Religiewetenschappen, KU Leuven |
Paper 823-a | Clima(c)tic Experience or a Mere 'Shouting of Words': Love and Annihilation in the Orcherd of Syon (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Theology |
Paper 823-b | A Climate of Suspicion?: Translating and Redacting John of Ruusbroec in Middle English (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Theology |
Paper 823-c | St Birgitta of Sweden in English Manuscript Miscellanies (Language: English) Index terms: Manuscripts and Palaeography, Religious Life, Women's Studies |
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. |