IMC 2009: Sessions
Session 1624: Priestly Piety in the Later Middle Ages
Thursday 16 July 2009, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | University of Huddersfield |
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| Organiser: | Patricia Cullum, Department of History, University of Huddersfield |
| Moderator/Chair: | Katherine J. Lewis, Department of History, University of Huddersfield |
| Paper 1624-a | Friedrich Sunder and Feminine Mysticism: A Secular Priest's Devotional Life in a Dominican Nunnery (Language: English) Index terms: Mentalities, Religious Life |
| Paper 1624-b | The Holy Priests' House of York: An Informal Common Life (Language: English) Index terms: Lay Piety, Religious Life |
| Paper 1624-c | Lyrical Translations of the Hours of the Cross as a Devotional Vehicle (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Lay Piety, Liturgy |
| Abstract | The session is a comparative one and will explore the personal piety of relatively junior members of the secular clergy in England and the Rhineland in the 14th and 15th centuries. While the piety of certain prominent mystics and theologians has been well explored, relatively little has been done on the private piety of ordinary clergy in a parochial and quasi-parochial context. Both papers will explore the lives and reputations of men who chose to in association with the regular life as well as in a parochial context, either as chaplain to a house of Dominican nuns, or in a non-institutional version of the Common Life. In doing so the papers will allow consideration of the extent of the Common Life as an ideal. |