IMC 2022: Sessions
Session 129: Love Know No Bounds: Mysticism and Borders, I - Gender, Rhetoric, and Spiritual Anthropology
Monday 4 July 2022, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Onderzoekscentrum Ruusbroecgenootschap, Universiteit Antwerpen |
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| Organiser: | Louise Nelstrop, St Benet's Hall, University of Oxford / Department of Theology & Religious Studies, York St John University |
| Moderator/Chair: | Louise Nelstrop, St Benet's Hall, University of Oxford / Department of Theology & Religious Studies, York St John University |
| Paper 129-a | Of Woman Born?: Boundaries of Gender and the Body in Later Medieval Gottesgeburt Imagery (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Religious Life, Sexuality, Women's Studies |
| Paper 129-b | Burnt to Nothing in the Unity of Love: Deification in Ruusbroec's Sparking Stone (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Dutch, Mentalities, Religious Life, Theology |
| Abstract | These sessions collectively explore ways in which mystical understandings of love naturally resist attempts to confine them, crossing theological, philosophical, literary, linguistic, temporal and geographical borders, as well as flowing out into the borders of manuscripts. Session I explores how mystical texts and writers engage with boundaries of gender, the body, linguistics, and spiritual anthropology in the Low Countries and Rhineland tradition, particularly in the thought of Jan van Ruusbroec. Session II explores the transmissions and constructions of authors, texts, and mystical motifs across confessional and geographical borders. It will focus particularly on the writings of Angelo of Foligno, Johannes Tauler, Henry Suso, and Nicholas Love. Session III explores the 19th to 21st-century reception of medieval mystical authors, texts and ideas. It will focus particularly on the reception of Meister Eckhart and Jan van Ruusbroec in the thought of Friedrich Schelling, Martin Heidegger, David Graeber, Joseph Henrich, and pivotal Jesuit scholars. |