Inventing and Deploying Auctoritates

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Divinity School, Univ. of Chicago

Organizer Name

Robert J. Porwoll

Organizer Affiliation

Univ. of Chicago

Presider Name

Theresa Gross-Diaz

Presider Affiliation

Loyola Univ. Chicago

Paper Title 1

Anti-Auctoritas: Augustine's Construction of Idolatry in The City of God

Presenter 1 Name

Daniel Owings

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Univ. of Chicago

Paper Title 2

Holy Authority and the Natural World in the Writings of Gerald of Wales

Presenter 2 Name

Daniel Yingst

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Univ. of Chicago

Paper Title 3

Intellectual Independence in the Face of Authority: William of Saint Thierry's Exegesis of the Song of Songs in Dialogue with His Ambrosian Florilegium

Presenter 3 Name

Delphine Naomi Conzelmann

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Univ. Basel

Paper Title 4

Humanism and Reform in John of Salisbury

Presenter 4 Name

Robert J. Porwoll

Start Date

10-5-2019 10:00 AM

Session Location

Schneider 2335

Description

The panel examines how thinkers maneuver, deploy, and invent authorities (such as laws, customs, authors, sentences/judgments) in order to support their position or polemically assault another's. Robert Porwoll