IMC 2009: Sessions
Session 119: State, Church, and the Defence of Orthodoxy in Medieval England
Monday 13 July 2009, 11.15-12.45
Sponsor: | The National Archives: Public Record Office, Kew |
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Organiser: | Sean Cunningham, The National Archives, Kew |
Moderator/Chair: | Chris Given-Wilson, St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies, University of St Andrews |
Paper 119-a | Separatio a communione fidelium: Contumacy, Secular Authority, and Significations of Excommunication in 13th-Century England (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Archives and Sources, Ecclesiastical History, Law |
Paper 119-b | Traitors or Heretics?: The Government Inquests into Oldcastle's Rebellion, 1414 (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Ecclesiastical History, Law, Politics and Diplomacy |
Paper 119-c | Unorthodoxy and Unsuitability: The Tensions of Church, Family, and State Service in the Career of James Stanley, Bishop of Ely (d. 1515) (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Ecclesiastical History, Politics and Diplomacy |
Abstract | The medieval English crown not only defended its own interests against those of the church; paradoxically, it was also responsible, in partnership with the clergy, for upholding religious orthodoxy and challenging heresy. Using sources from the National Archives, this session explores the administrative relationships between church and state in late medieval England, and also highlights some of the personal difficulties faced by those who had multiple roles within the medieval polity. |