{"id":11684,"date":"2019-03-15T01:06:23","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T01:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/?page_id=11684"},"modified":"2019-03-16T02:20:01","modified_gmt":"2019-03-16T02:20:01","slug":"fanger-2019-congress","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/abstracts\/fanger-2019-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Fanger (2019 Congress)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Claire Fanger<br \/>\n(<em>Rice University<\/em>)<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2>&#8220;Scriptural Dreaming:\u00a0 Revisiting the Exstacy Defence&#8221;<\/h2>\n<h3>Abstract of Paper<br \/>\nTo be presented at the 54th International Congress on Medieval Studies<br \/>\n(Kalamazoo, 2019)<\/h3>\n<h4>Session on<br \/>\n\u201cEmbedded in the Mainstream:\u00a0 Ritual Magic Incorporated in \u2018Legitimate\u2019 Texts\u201d<\/h4>\n<h4>Sponsored by the <strong>Research Group on Manuscript Evidence<br \/>\nand the <a href=\"http:\/\/societasmagica.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Societas Magica<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nOrganized by Vajra Regan<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/2019-international-congress-on-medieval-studies-program\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2019 Congress Program<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>[<em>Published on 14 March 2019<\/em>]<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<h4>Abstract<\/h4>\n<p>The \u201cecstasy defense\u201d is Robert Lerner\u2019s formulation for a particular way of deploying dreams and visions to justify innovative theology.\u00a0 In a well-known 1992 <em>Speculum<\/em> article, \u201cEcstatic Dissent\u201d, he argues that there was a pattern among professional religious of recourse to visionary knowledge in cases where writers were accused or formally charged with heresy.\u00a0 One of the case studies he uses to show the pattern included the visionary memoir of Rupert of Deutz.<\/p>\n<p>In this paper I will revisit Rupert\u2019s memoir and nuance some points made by Lerner about the ecstasy defense itself, before looking at the <em>Liber florum<\/em> of John of Morigny, also including a memoir recording dreams that legitimate a writing project, which, in his case included numerous magical sources. \u00a0 Like Rupert, John embeds his writings in a versions of divine discourse that extends the scriptural word of God into dreams; thus the textual product of his magical practice is represented as the actual word of God.<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Claire Fanger (Rice University) &#8220;Scriptural Dreaming:\u00a0 Revisiting the Exstacy Defence&#8221; Abstract of Paper To be presented at the 54th International Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo, 2019) Session on \u201cEmbedded in the Mainstream:\u00a0 Ritual Magic Incorporated in \u2018Legitimate\u2019 Texts\u201d Sponsored by the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence and the Societas Magica Organized by Vajra Regan 2019 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":1023,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11684"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11684"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11728,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11684\/revisions\/11728"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}