IMC 2024: Sessions
Session 1641: The Role of Crises in the Emergence of the Mystical Literature from Helfta Abbey
Thursday 4 July 2024, 11:15-12:45
| Sponsor: | International Committee for the Nomination of St Gertrude as a Doctor of the Church (CNSG) |
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| Organiser: | Ana Laura Forastieri, Facultad de Teología, Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina |
| Moderator/Chair: | Ann Marie Caron, Department of Philosophy & Religious Studies, College of Mount Saint Vincent, New York |
| Paper 1641-a | Crisis and the Genesis of the Different Pieces in the Leipzig, Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, MS 827 (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Monasticism and Women's Studies |
| Paper 1641-b | A Crisis and Its Consequences in Helfta Abbey (Language: English) Index terms: Liturgy, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Monasticism and Theology |
| Abstract | Some of the writings of the mystical and theological literature of the Helfta Abbey in the 13th century show pointers or traces of different crises, whether personal or institutional, that would have contributed to the spring forth of the corpus, whether providing the main reason, the occasion, or even the context for the production of some particular writing. Crises could also be investigated as the reason or the circumstance for the emergence of the same particular copy in the transmission chain. Even crisis might explain the concealment or restriction of circulation of some specific pieces of the corpus, thus giving rise to different versions of the same work. The subject is relevant for research from different approaches such as historical, psychological, institutional, economic, liturgical, and codicological; and through different methods and hermeneutics such as literary analysis, historical criticism, paleographic and epigraphic methods, among others. |