Thursday, November 21
In this lecture, I will discuss the first-person accounts of various medieval religious converts including Hermann the Jew, Abner of Burgos, and Anselm Turmeda. I will consider how the basic form of a conversion story—from Paul and Augustine to Bunyon, Rousseau, and Joyce—lends itself to narrative drama, suggesting that autobiography is not just a portrait of the self, but a story of the self’s transformation.
Part of the lecture course ASK200334, https://css.ff.cuni.cz/cs/programme-me-and-the-world-autobiography-in-medieval-and-early-modern-europe/