IMC 2010: Sessions
Session 1213: Travelling to Rome, I: Priests, Pilgrims, and Penitents
Wednesday 14 July 2010, 14.15-15.45
| Organiser: | Benjamin Weber, Départment d’Histoire, Université de Pau-Pays de l'Adour |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Benjamin Weber, Départment d’Histoire, Université de Pau-Pays de l'Adour |
| Paper 1213-a | Benefice-Hunters, Murderers, and Pilgrims: The Finns in Roman curia in the Late Middle Ages (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Lay Piety, Religious Life |
| Paper 1213-b | Scandinavian Parish Priests Who Went to the Pope (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Lay Piety, Religious Life |
| Paper 1213-c | At the Pope's Feet: Female Petitioners before the Penitentiary in 1500 (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Lay Piety, Religious Life, Women's Studies |
| Abstract | Rome was one of the most attractive places throughout the Middle Ages. People from all over the Christian world undertook this travel, with very various motivations: pilgrimage, political embassy, ecclesiastical affairs, economic bargains, artistic or historical curiosity. These sessions will try to understand the real meaning and respective importance of all this motivations. Where people coming to Rome for the pope? For the shrines? For indulgences? Where political matters really dealt with in Rome or in local courts? Was Rome a centre of economic life in the Middle Ages? And what was the impact of the city's history on this travels (internal struggles, Great Schism, affirmation of papal authority)? The papers will examine these questions on a large chronological period (13th-16th century), using both local and pontifical sources and trying to include the entire Christian area from Sweden to Ethiopia. |