IMC 2022: Sessions

Session 1339: The Not-So-Secret Lives of Mystics: Lived Experience in Mystical Texts, III

Wednesday 6 July 2022, 16.30-18.00

Sponsor:	Mysticism & Lived Experience Network
Organiser:	Amanda Langley, School of History, Queen Mary University of London
Moderator/Chair:	Hannah Victoria Johnson, UFR Littérature Française et Comparée Sorbonne Université Paris
Paper 1339-a	Choreographing Salvific Pain: How Does the Hagiographer Capture the Lived Experience of the Saints of 13th-Century Liège? (Language: English) Sander Vloebergs, Institute for the Study of Spirituality, KU Leuven Index terms: Gender Studies, Hagiography, Theology, Women's Studies
Paper 1339-b	The Influence of Moving Community on Hildegard von Bingen's Mysticism, Music, and Medicine (Language: English) Lauren Cole, Education Services University of Bristol Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Religious Life, Theology, Women's Studies
Paper 1339-c	Teaching Mystics: Lived Experience as a Means of Instruction in the St Katharinentaler Schwesternbuch (Language: English) Verena Puth, Institutionen för kultur och estetik, Stockholms universitet Index terms: Religious Life, Teaching the Middle Ages, 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 weaved 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.