IMC 2022: Sessions

Session 1139: The Not-So-Secret Lives of Mystics: Lived Experience in Mystical Texts, I

Wednesday 6 July 2022, 11.15-12.45

Sponsor:	Mysticism & Lived Experience Network
Organiser:	Einat Klafter, Cohn Institute for the History & Philosophy of Science & Ideas, Tel Aviv University
Moderator/Chair:	John Arblaster, Institute for the Study of Spirituality, KU Leuven / Ruusbroecgenootschap, Universiteit Antwerpen
Paper 1139-a	Justinian the Mystic in the Historiographical Work of Procopius of Caesarea or a Parody of Mysticism in Late Antiquity (Language: English) Simona Puca, Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, Università degli Studi di Napoli - Federico II Index terms: Hagiography, Religious Life, Sermons and Preaching, Theology
Paper 1139-b	Lived Experience in Æthelwulf's Visions of the Afterlife (Language: English) Jessica Coulson, School of Literature, Drama & Creative Writing, University of East Anglia Index terms: Hagiography, Language and Literature - Old English, Religious Life, Theology
Paper 1139-c	Seen through a Glass, Darkly: Lived Experience in Marguerite Porete's Mirror of Simple Souls (Language: English) Elsa McDonald, Institute for Medieval Studies University of Leeds Index terms: Hagiography, Religious Life, Theology, Women's Studies
Abstract	This panel series explores the ways the biographical and personal impacts the textual products surrounding medieval mystics and visionaries - both hagiographical and self-authored works. We consider how approaching these texts from a lived-experience perspective enables us to look beyond the overarching master tropes that are generally used to interpret such works: how the biographical is woven into these master narratives of what are generally very genre-determined texts, creating individual versions that are shaped by their local context and personal memories.