{"id":315,"date":"2022-07-15T13:54:58","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T11:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/apophatictradition\/?page_id=315"},"modified":"2022-07-27T16:33:30","modified_gmt":"2022-07-27T14:33:30","slug":"project-key-questions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/apophatictradition\/project-key-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Key Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This project will examine a series of texts, translations, and compilations in Latin and Middle English which promote imageless contemplation, and work by stripping back established processes of cognition. It will study these texts in relation to their influences and intertextual engagements, and circumstances of production and circulation, in order to answer the following questions:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Is it possible to discern a distinctively&nbsp;<em>English<\/em>&nbsp;apophatic tradition, formed in dialectic with the political and ecclesiastical crises of the late fourteenth- and fifteenth-century England, and if so, what are its central characteristics and key texts?&nbsp;<\/li><li>What is the trajectory of such a tradition, and where should we set its perimeters (for example, some texts in Methley\u2019s&nbsp;<em>\u0153uvre<\/em>&nbsp;appear to fuse cataphatic and apophatic forms of expression)?<\/li><li>&nbsp;Given the Christian NeoPlatonist roots of the Mediterranean apophatic tradition, what implications might the formulation of a more forceful fifteenth-century English apophatic tradition have for traditional constructions of&nbsp;<em>sixteenth<\/em>&#8211;<em>century<\/em>&nbsp;Christian NeoPlatonism?&nbsp;<\/li><li>In gaging continental input into this tradition, what role is played by exegetes and mystics from monastic houses in the Savoy, Constanze and Winterthur (Thomas Gallus, Hugh of Balma, Heinrich Suso)? Is it pushing things too far to speak of a distinctively \u2018Swiss\u2019 or transalpine influence upon English apophatic theology?&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/apophatictradition\/files\/2022\/07\/rene-magritte-la-peine-perdue-674x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-369\" width=\"337\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/apophatictradition\/files\/2022\/07\/rene-magritte-la-peine-perdue-674x1024.jpg 674w, https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/apophatictradition\/files\/2022\/07\/rene-magritte-la-peine-perdue-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/apophatictradition\/files\/2022\/07\/rene-magritte-la-peine-perdue-768x1167.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/apophatictradition\/files\/2022\/07\/rene-magritte-la-peine-perdue-540x820.jpg 540w, https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/apophatictradition\/files\/2022\/07\/rene-magritte-la-peine-perdue.jpg 790w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 337px) 100vw, 337px\" \/><figcaption>Ren\u00e9 Magritte,\u00a0<em>La peine perdue<\/em>, 1962<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The answers to these questions will rebalance current formulations of the late medieval religious landscape in England, and will open a window upon an apophatic corpus incorporating but also extending well beyond the traditional&nbsp;<em>Cloud<\/em>-corpus. Additionally, they will open a conversation about&nbsp;<em>locations<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>networks<\/em>&nbsp;of apophatic composition within Europe, and the ways they communicate with one another and with England.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This project will examine a series of texts, translations, and compilations in Latin and Middle English which promote imageless contemplation, and work by stripping back established processes of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1002457,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-full-width.php","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-315","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/apophatictradition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/apophatictradition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/apophatictradition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/apophatictradition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1002457"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/apophatictradition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/apophatictradition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/apophatictradition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}