IMC 2009: Sessions
Session 1016: Heresy and Bodily Practice, I: Heresy as Disease or Poison
Wednesday 15 July 2009, 09.00-10.30
Moderator/Chair: | Iona McCleery, Institute for Medieval Studies / School of History, University of Leeds |
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Paper 1016-a | Saving Faith in Languedoc: The Dominican Practice of Medieval 'Doctors of Souls' (Language: English) Index terms: Monasticism, Rhetoric, Sermons and Preaching |
Paper 1016-b | Homines sub habitu religionis aquas inficiebant et potiones imponebat in Gerona (Spain) in 1348: An Example of Clergy Bad Image (Language: English) Index terms: Local History, Mentalities, Religious Life, Social History |
Abstract | The papers in this session explore the ways in which discourses about heresy, conceived in various contexts as a failure to accede properly to the spiritual and the good of the soul, drew on the language and imagery of physical disease. Paper -a: Paper -b: |