IMC 2003: Sessions
Session 1620: Contesting Ecclesiastical Space in the Early Middle Ages
Thursday 17 July 2003, 11.15-12.45
| Organiser: | Jason K. Glenn, Department of History, University of Southern California |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Jason K. Glenn, Department of History, University of Southern California |
| Paper 1620-a | Place, Penance and the Right of Asylum in Alcuin's Tours (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History |
| Paper 1620-b | 'Ad locum sanctum, ad stipendia fratrum': Organization of Cathedral Lands in 10th-Century Aquitaine (Language: English) Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Ecclesiastical History |
| Paper 1620-c | Saints in the Fields: The Dynamics of Peace Assemblies (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History |
| Abstract | In the Early Middle Ages holy places were defined with a flexible set of often invisible boundaries. In the sources, discussion of this sacred topography of place most often occurs in hagiographical or exegetical contexts. Yet, in moments of conflict, it is exactly these rarefied and imagined topographies of ecclesiastical space which are pressed into service in the physical world in ways which are as problematic as they are revealing. Our three papers set out to explore this middle ground where imagination and the world come together, and where the authors of our texts blur the boundaries between the vocabulary of the sacred and the legal at the threshold of the holy places. |