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Almut Suerbaum
Including the Excluded
Strategies of Opening Up in Late Medieval Religious Writing
Practices of rewriting and mouvance are central to medieval culture, but have been neglected by contemporary scholarship. This paper highlights how collaborative forms of writing such as religious song engage with complex theological thought, opening up a discourse from which the laity had previously been excluded. Using forms which defy conventional author-based aesthetic norms, these songs explore poetic practices which are both collective and inclusive.
Keywords: aesthetics; courtly culture; inclusion; lyric; mouvance; mysticism; textuality
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Including the Excluded
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Strategies of Opening Up in Late Medieval Religious Writing
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Almut Suerbaum
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Practices of rewriting and mouvance are central to medieval culture, but have been neglected by contemporary scholarship. This paper highlights how collaborative forms of writing such as religious song engage with complex theological thought, opening up a discourse from which the laity had previously been excluded. Using forms which defy conventional author-based aesthetic norms, these songs explore poetic practices which are both collective and inclusive.
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Berlin
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ICI Berlin Press
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19 April 2022
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aesthetics
courtly culture
inclusion
lyric
mouvance
mysticism
textuality
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© by the author(s)
Except for images or otherwise noted, this publication is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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en-GB
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191
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208
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Openness in Medieval Europe, ed. by Manuele Gragnolati and Almut Suerbaum, Cultural Inquiry, 23 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2022), pp. 191–208
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Cite as:
Almut Suerbaum, ‘Including the Excluded: Strategies of Opening Up in Late Medieval Religious Writing’, in Openness in Medieval Europe, ed. by Manuele Gragnolati and Almut Suerbaum, Cultural Inquiry, 23 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2022), pp. 191-208 <https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-23_10>