The Material Gospel - 31/05/2019, Notre Dame (IN, USA)
- 5 may 2019
- 2 Min. de lectura
As material objects, instantiations of “the Gospel” participated in ritual, political, economic, and readerly contexts. Gospel books were powerful. Augustine of Hippo complains that his audiences put Gospel books under their pillows to cure toothache. Amulets attest that even short excerpts enabled users to access the protective power of the material Gospel. The Gospel codex sometimes represented Christian identity, as Gospel books were processed in liturgy and imposed on the shoulders of ordinands. In times of persecution, Gospel books might even be subject to public execution in place of Christ himself. Yet Gospel books might also be erased or destroyed for apparently more mundane reasons, as various kinds of recycling attest. As an anthological object, the multi-Gospel codex contributed to the development of a fourfold canonical Gospel. Early Christian readers developed novel strategies to facilitate knowledge, navigation, and use of Gospel literature. In each of these contexts, the materiality of Gospel literature plays a decisive role.
FECHA CONGRESO/CONGRESS DATE/DATA CONGRESSO: 31/05/2019
LUGAR/LOCATION/LUOGO: Hesburgh Library, University of Notre Dame (Notre Dame, IN, USA)
ORGANIZADOR/ORGANIZER/ORGANIZZATORE: David Lincicum; Jeremiah Coogan.
INFO: web - jcoogan2@nd.edu
INSCRIPCIÓN/REGISTRATION/REGISTRAZIONE: gratis / free / gratuito
PROGRAMA/PROGRAM/PROGRAMMA:
9.00–9.30: Coffee and pastries 9.30–11.30: Session I 11.30–12.30: Lunch 12.30–14.30: Session II 14.30–15.00: Coffee 15.00–17.00: Session III All sessions will be held in Hesburgh Library at the University of Notre Dame.
Session I
David Lincicum (Notre Dame): Welcome Clare Rothschild (Lewis University): “Galen’s De indolentia and the Early Christian Codex” Jeremiah Coogan (Notre Dame): “Navigating the Gospel: Nonlinear Access and Practical Use” Nathan Eubank (Notre Dame): Respondent
Session II
Chris Keith (St Mary’s University Twickenham): “The Gospel Read, Sliced, and Burned: The Material Gospel and the Construction of Christian Identity” Angela Zautcke (Notre Dame): “Erasing the Gospels: Insights from the Sinai Syriac Gospel Palimpsest” Paul Wheatley (Notre Dame): Respondent
Session III
Sofía Torallas Tovar (University of Chicago): “Resisting the Codex: Christian Rolls in Late Antiquity” Matthew Larsen (Princeton): “Codex Bobiensis: A Real-and-Imagined Biography of One Gospel Manuscript” Robin Jensen (Notre Dame): Respondent
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