IMC 2009: Sessions
Session 1320: Power, Piety, and Politics: Reproaches of Heresy as Political Measure
Wednesday 15 July 2009, 16.30-18.00
Sponsor: | Historisches Institut, Ruhr-Universität Bochum |
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Organiser: | Miriam Czock, Lehrstuhl für Mittelalterliche Geschichte, Heinrich-Heine Universität Düsseldorf |
Moderator/Chair: | Albrecht Diem, Department of History, Syracuse University, New York |
Paper 1320-a | Peter Clergue, Priest of Montaillou: A Smart Dealer of Orthodoxy in Times of Inquisitorial Persecution? (Language: English) Index terms: Lay Piety, Mentalities |
Paper 1320-b | Heresy in the Cantigas de Santa Maria (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Religious Life |
Paper 1320-c | Authority, Legitimacy, and Preaching: Wandering Preachers and Heresy (Language: English) Index terms: Lay Piety, Religious Life |
Abstract | Discourse about heresy is frequently judged to be of a predominantly religious nature. But accusations and likewise literary models of heresy although religious in nature carry deeper social and political implications, as heresy was often perceived to be a threat to the order of society. Since one individual's religion was not only a private matter but of social relevance and even a defined part of a person's status, the proposed session takes a closer look at why, how, and by whom someone was, or a group of people were, shaped as heretics. Thus the papers will try to uncover the motives that underlie the accusations of heresy. As religious relations in the middle ages are intertwined in power structures we are especially concerned with the way heresy as a concept was interpreted through the lens of and subjected to political gains. |