IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 1531: Tangling with the Classics, I: Medieval Learning
Thursday 6 July 2023, 09.00-10.30
| Organisers: | Jacqueline Burek, Department of English, George Mason University, Virginia Rebecca Menmuir, Faculty of English University of Oxford |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Philippa Byrne, St John's College, University of Oxford |
| Paper 1531-a | Eriugenian Entanglements: Defining Vox in the 9th and 10th Centuries (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Learning (The Classical Inheritance), Rhetoric |
| Paper 1531-b | Pruning the Roots of Entanglement: Teaching the Georgics in the Cathedral Schools of France (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Learning (The Classical Inheritance), Rhetoric |
| Paper 1531-c | Édouard Glissant's Poetics of Relation as a Guide to Late Medieval Vernacular Translations of Arabo-Latin Science (Language: English) Index terms: Islamic and Arabic Studies, Language and Literature - Middle English, Learning (The Classical Inheritance), Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Abstract | This panel is one of a series of panels entitled 'Tangling with the Classics', which together explore how the relationship between classical and medieval texts might be considered a kind of entanglement. These panels complicate the idea of classical reception in the Middle Ages, by reimagining it not as a linear movement but as a tangled mass of threads, in which classical authors are equally likely to ensnare or to be ensnared by medieval writers. The 'Medieval Learning' panel investigates this idea in medieval academic and scholarly texts, with papers examining grammatical treatises, commentaries on the Georgics, and vernacular translations of Arabo-Latin astronomical, astrological, and medical works. |