IMC 2022: Sessions

Session 1239: The Not-So-Secret Lives of Mystics: Lived Experience in Mystical Texts, II

Sponsor:	Mysticism & Lived Experience Network
Organiser:	Amanda Langley, School of History, Queen Mary University of London
Moderator/Chair:	Einat Klafter, Cohn Institute for the History & Philosophy of Science & Ideas, Tel Aviv University
Paper 1239-a	In-Between Experience and Expression: Mysticism of Kshetrayya and John of the Cross (Language: English) Rupesh Kotte, Department of Humanities & Sciences, School of Sciences, SR University, Warangal Index terms: Religious Life, Sermons and Preaching, Theology
Paper 1239-b	Rethinking Virginity in Old French Hagiography (Language: English) Katherine Churchill, Department of English, University of Virginia Index terms: Gender Studies, Hagiography, 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.