Openness in Medieval Europe

Introduction: Medieval Openness / MANUELE GRAGNOLATI AND ALMUT SUERBAUM

I. Texts
An Interminable Work? The Openness of Augustine's Confessions / FRANCESCO GIUSTI
What Was Open in/about Early Scholastic Thought? / PHILIPPA BYRNE
Speech-Wrangling: Shutting Up and Shutting Out the Oral Tradition in Some Icelandic Sagas / BRIAN MCMAHON
Interrupted and Unfinished: The Open-Ended Dante of the Commedia / NICOLÒ CRISAFI
Medieval Denmark and its Languages: The Case for a More Open Literary Historiography / ALASTAIR MATTHEWS

II. Experience and Subjectivity
Merlin's Open Mind: Madness, Prophecy, and Poetry in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Vita Merlini / MONIKA OTTER
Enclosure and Exposure: Locating the 'House without Walls' / ANNIE SUTHERLAND
Unlikely Matter: The Open and the Nomad in The Book of Margery Kempe and the Middle English Christina Mirabilis / JOHANNES WOLF
Including the Excluded: Strategies of Opening Up in Late Medieval Religious Writing / ALMUT SUERBAUM
Openness and Intensity: Petrarch's Becoming Laurel in Rerum vulgarium fragmenta 23 and 228 / MANUELE GRAGNOLATI AND FRANCESCA SOUTHERDEN

III. Community
Highest Openness: On Agamben's Promise / DAMIANO SACCO
The Monastic Enclosure / BENJAMIN THOMPSON
The Openness of the Enclosed Convent: Evidence from the Lüne Letter Collection / EDMUND WAREHAM
The Book Half Open: Humanist Friendship in Holbein's Portrait of Hermann von Wedigh III / OREN MARGOLIS