What Do We Mean by Devotion?
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Lollard Society
Organizer Name
Mary Raschko, Robyn Malo
Organizer Affiliation
Whitman College, Purdue Univ.
Presider Name
Mary Raschko
Paper Title 1
Devotion: Medieval and Modern
Presenter 1 Name
Michelle Karnes
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Stanford Univ.
Paper Title 2
Translating the Myroure "More Openly": Devotional Reading and Wycliffite Hermeneutics at Syon Abbey
Presenter 2 Name
Michelle Ripplinger
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Univ. of California-Berkeley
Paper Title 3
Devotion and "The Literary"
Presenter 3 Name
Jessica Brantley
Presenter 3 Affiliation
Yale Univ.
Paper Title 4
Respondent
Presenter 4 Name
Nicholas Watson
Presenter 4 Affiliation
Harvard Univ.
Start Date
13-5-2016 3:30 PM
Session Location
Fetzer 1045
Description
In scholarship on later medieval religiosity, the terms “devotion” and “devotional” can signal a wide range of dispositions, behaviors, teachings, and textual forms: just what do we mean by this term? This panel will explore the variety of external behaviors and internal states we might consider devotional. Questions papers might engage with include, but are not limited to: What are the scope and limits of this terminology? How does devotion relate to form, genre, emotion, cognition, contemplation, or theology? Papers might also ask how devotion meaningfully differs from or overlaps with pastoral instruction, guidance for right living, examination of conscience, or communal ritual. Likewise, they might explore to what extent manuscript contexts determine how we categorize religious texts.
What Do We Mean by Devotion?
Fetzer 1045
In scholarship on later medieval religiosity, the terms “devotion” and “devotional” can signal a wide range of dispositions, behaviors, teachings, and textual forms: just what do we mean by this term? This panel will explore the variety of external behaviors and internal states we might consider devotional. Questions papers might engage with include, but are not limited to: What are the scope and limits of this terminology? How does devotion relate to form, genre, emotion, cognition, contemplation, or theology? Papers might also ask how devotion meaningfully differs from or overlaps with pastoral instruction, guidance for right living, examination of conscience, or communal ritual. Likewise, they might explore to what extent manuscript contexts determine how we categorize religious texts.