Panagiotis Roilos, “I Am the Way and the Truth”: A Cognitive Historical Anthropology of the Ethics of Imagination in Byzantium

Event time: 
Thursday, November 10, 2016 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Location: 
Rosenkranz Hall (RKZ), 05 See map
115 Prospect St.
New Haven, CT 06511
Event description: 

Professor Roilos’ lecture will focus on the tensions between Christian ethics (especially sanctioned discourses on truth) and imagination in Byzantium. By focusing on specific examples of hagiography, rhetoric, and allegorical hermeneutics, Roilos shall illustrate the ways in which ancient Greek theories of, and approaches to phantasia and fictionality were adapted to medieval Greek literary and broader intellectual contexts. Roilos shall propose a new methodological approach to this complex cultural process on the basis of what he calls “cognitive historical anthropology.”

Admission: 
Free

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