IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 109: The Formation of Discourse Communities in Late Antiquity, 500-700, I: Iberia
Monday 3 July 2023, 11.15-12.45
Organisers: | Kay Boers, Utrecht Centre for Medieval Studies, Universiteit Utrecht Becca Grose, Departement Geschiedenis en Kunstgeschiedenis, Universiteit Utrecht |
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Moderator/Chair: | Rebecca Maloy, College of Music, University of Colorado, Boulder |
Paper 109-a | A Change of Terms: Discourses of Diverse Liturgies in Visigothic Iberia (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Liturgy |
Paper 109-b | Christian Political Discourse in Visigothic Iberia: Theory and Practice beyond Contradiction (Language: English) Index terms: Political Thought, Social History |
Paper 109-c | Jews and Jesus as Visigothic Catholicism's objets petit a: An Ontotheological Discourse on the Concept of 'Human Nature' (Language: English) Index terms: Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Theology |
Abstract | The term discourse community implies the existence of an identifiable discourse or set of mutually recognizable objectives or aspirations, an identifiable group within which this shared language circulated, and an external group where it did not. This session focuses on the formation of discourse communities in 6th and 7th-century Iberia. Its three papers explore the emergence of discourse communities, their maintenance, and the extent to which their conversations shaped their contemporaries social and political realities. The first paper (Lester) investigates how Nicene liturgy affected discourses of religious difference; the second (Pachá) critically analyses the difference in theory and practice in regards to conciliar discourse communities; and the third (Kelly) explores how Catholic conversations about 'human nature' resulted in the labelling of Jews as 'inhuman'. |