IMC 2005: Sessions
Session 1619: Ideal and Practicality in Missionary Efforts and Conversion Issues
Thursday 14 July 2005, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Texas Medieval Association |
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| Organiser: | Sally N. Vaughn, Department of History, University of Houston, Texas |
| Moderator/Chair: | James R. King, Department of History, Midwestern State University |
| Paper 1619-a | The Irish and Roman Models for Northumbrian Missions (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Local History |
| Paper 1619-b | Rudolf Writing Leoba: Ideal and Practice in Literary Form (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Hagiography, Language and Literature - Old English |
| Paper 1619-c | The Norman Missionary Vision and the Reform of the English Church (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Historiography - Medieval, Political Thought |
| Abstract | This session will examine three different examples of missionaries attempting conversion. The first is the conversion of Northumbria, which drew its ideas of conversion from both the Irish and the Roman traditions, and then developed these into missionary ideals for conversion of the continent. The second is an analysis of Rudolf Abbot of Fulda's struggle to reconcile the missionary Leoba's admirable missionary efforts with the difficult fact that she was female, and to produce a text balancing both facts. The third examines the Norman reform of the English church after 1066 to find Archbishops Lanfranc and Anselm drawing upon the Augustinian conversion of England for their models, and seeing themselves as almost reenacting this history. |