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Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 12:52:53 -0600
From: "Claire M. Waters" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: kzoo CFP, Devout Listeners: Orthodoxy, Heterodoxy,
and Audience
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This is the only list I'm sending this to--please pass it along to
others if you think it might be of interest. Thanks.
Claire.
Devout Listeners: Orthodoxy, Heterodoxy, and Audience
The proper understanding of a medieval text (treatise, sermon,
devotional piece) could be a matter of life and death not only for
its author but for its audiences. Modern scholars often focus on
authorial intention or official response in considering medieval
religious texts, particularly those whose orthodoxy may be at issue;
this session hopes to attract papers that consider what we can
understand about audiences' response to and responsibility for the
material they heard and read. Topics could include the issue of mixed
audiences (how different groups might have understood a given text);
the question of lay responsibility for detecting heretical material;
manuscripts that preserve both "heterodox" and "orthodox" texts; and
so forth.
Questions or abstracts by e-mail, post, carrier pigeon, etc., to
Claire M. Waters
Department of English
Humanities Building 215
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque NM 87131-1106
(505) 277-2345
Fax: (505) 277-5573
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