Nature and Creation: Reassessing Concepts
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Society for the Promotion of Eriugenian Studies (SPES)
Organizer Name
Sara Ritchey
Organizer Affiliation
Univ. of Louisiana-Lafayette
Presider Name
Willemien Otten
Presider Affiliation
Univ. of Chicago
Paper Title 1
Peter Abelard's Naturalistic Style
Presenter 1 Name
Babette Hellemans
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Rijksuniv. Groningen
Paper Title 2
Hoc iterum infirmum intellectum scandalizat: Nature in the Service of Pedagogy and Reform in the Writings of Honorius Augustodunensis
Presenter 2 Name
Daniel Yingst
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Univ. of Chicago
Paper Title 3
The Concept of Integumentum in Bernard Silvestris's Cosmographia: A Reevalution of the Interplay between Nature, Creation, Humanity, and Text in Twelfth-Century Poetry
Presenter 3 Name
David Orsbon
Presenter 3 Affiliation
Univ. of Chicago
Paper Title 4
Respondent
Presenter 4 Name
Sarah Powrie
Presenter 4 Affiliation
St. Thomas More College
Start Date
10-5-2014 10:00 AM
Session Location
Valley I Hadley 102
Description
This session examines from a variety of perspectives theological and spiritual discussions about the natural and created world in the twelfth century. While most scholars agree with M.D. Chenu that the social and cultural transformations of the long twelfth century included critical changes in human concepts of nature and the natural, there remains a lack of clarity as to what these changes entailed. Consequently, scholars in medieval studies often appear to be discussing vastly different subjects under the ill-defined category of nature. We seek papers that aim to clarify this nebulous category by exploring premodern definitions and concepts of nature and the created world, as well as distinctions between these two entities. Papers may address key texts, the vocabulary of nature, or continuities and discontinuities among authors such as William of Conches, Hildegard of Bingen, Alain of Lille, Bernard Silvestris, Herrad of Hohenbourg, and others.
Sara M. Ritchey, Willemien Otten
Nature and Creation: Reassessing Concepts
Valley I Hadley 102
This session examines from a variety of perspectives theological and spiritual discussions about the natural and created world in the twelfth century. While most scholars agree with M.D. Chenu that the social and cultural transformations of the long twelfth century included critical changes in human concepts of nature and the natural, there remains a lack of clarity as to what these changes entailed. Consequently, scholars in medieval studies often appear to be discussing vastly different subjects under the ill-defined category of nature. We seek papers that aim to clarify this nebulous category by exploring premodern definitions and concepts of nature and the created world, as well as distinctions between these two entities. Papers may address key texts, the vocabulary of nature, or continuities and discontinuities among authors such as William of Conches, Hildegard of Bingen, Alain of Lille, Bernard Silvestris, Herrad of Hohenbourg, and others.
Sara M. Ritchey, Willemien Otten