ILH Public Seminar Series | Renaissance Religions | Peter Howard (ACU)
The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities presents
The Intellectual and Literary History Public Seminar Series
THE POLITICS OF KNOWLEDGE
Co-hosted by the School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry
Renaissance Religions: Modes and Meanings in History
This paper addresses some current issues surrounding approaches to the study of religion in the pre-reformation period. In particular, revisionist approaches to humanism and humanists are forcing a re-evaluation of the framing of belief and the boundaries between Christianity, Judaism, and Islam are seen to be more fluid and porous, while a keen interest in devotion and materiality has lent new voice to ‘subaltern’ elements in society. I will be taking Florence in the late fifteenth century as my case study, and will examine how newly discovered texts and approaches to antique religions were challenging understandings of the nature of theology and the boundaries of orthodoxy. I will draw upon material that has hitherto escaped comment in the historiography.
Seminar Room, Level 4 Forgan Smith Tower
The University of Queensland, St Lucia
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