IMC 2009: Sessions
Session 1217: Mali Christiani: Perceptions of Bad Christians
Wednesday 15 July 2009, 14.15-15.45
Sponsor: | Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Reading |
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Organiser: | Lindy Grant, Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Reading |
Moderator/Chair: | Anne Lawrence-Mathers, Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Reading |
Paper 1217-a | Mali Christiani: Perceptions of Transgression in 11th-Century East Central Europe (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Religious Life |
Paper 1217-b | Hierarchy versus Heresy: Pope Gregory IX and Crusading in Europe in the 1230s (Language: English) Index terms: Canon Law, Crusades |
Paper 1217-c | 'These Christians are devils in their speech!': 14th-Century Toulouse and Heresy (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - French or Occitan, Sermons and Preaching |
Abstract | This session focuses on perceptions of mali christiani - bad Christians, Christians who are still counted within rather than without the church - in clerical writing, including hagiography, papal letters, and sermons. Two papers will deal with those perceptions and the Cathar heresy in SW. France in the 13th and 14th centuries; two deal with the perceived fragility of Christianisation in East Central Europe in the 11th and the 13th centuries: between them they will bring a richly comparative approach to medieval concepts of what constituted heresy over a broad geographical and historical timeframe. |