| Sponsor: | Centre for Medieval & Renaissance Culture, University of Southampton / Centre for Medieval & Early Modern Studies, University of Kent |
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| Organiser: | Peter Douglas Clarke, Department of History, University of Southampton |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Sarah James, Centre for Medieval & Early Modern Studies (MEMS), University of Kent |
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| Paper 128-a | Pastoral Care in Early Medieval Exeter: Episcopal Preaching and Ecclesiastical Reforms
(Language: English)
Erika Corradini, Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics & Area Studies (LLAS), University of Southampton
Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Mentalities, Sermons and Preaching |
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| Paper 128-b | 'Ars artium est cura animarum': Innocent III's Concern for Pastoral Care
(Language: English)
Brenda M. Bolton, University of London
Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Mentalities, Sermons and Preaching |
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| Paper 128-c | The Papacy and Preaching to Non-Christians after the Fourth Lateran Council
(Language: English)
Barbara Bombi, School of History, University of Kent
Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Mentalities, Sermons and Preaching |
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| Abstract | Paper -a:
My paper will explore the role of bishops in administering pastoral care in the late 11th century in the diocese of Devon and Cornwall. For this purpose, I will examine the homiletic materials available at Exeter cathedral during the episcopacy of the Lotharingian bishop Leofric in order to cast light on the situations in which he preached and on the audiences with which he engaged. In this context, parallels and potential relations with the ecclesiastical reforms of the contemporary pope Leo IX will be drawn and brought to bear on the achievements of Leofric's office in administering his diocese and providing pastoral care for his flock.
Paper -b:
The Fourth Lateran Council of 1215 was unquestionably the most significant assembly of the medieval Church and also the most pastoral by virtue of the decrees which it enacted for the guidance of clerics and laity alike. Several of these provisions encapsulate Innocent III's concern for the cure of souls, the administration of which he considered as the most sublime art of all. Yet, as Leonard Boyle has suggested, few of the Council's pastoral constitutions were wholly innovative. This paper sets out to examine their origins, as reflected not only in the thought of the School of Pastoral Theology in Paris but also in local practice as demonstrated through synodal statutes and provincial councils, particularly in France, Flanders, Brabant, and Italy in the last quarter of the 12th and first decade of the 13th century.
Paper -c:
The paper will explore how the papacy promoted missions among non-Christians in Northern Europe and the Middle East following the Fourth Lateran Council in 1215. In particular it will examine the canonical and theological models that underlay Christian missionary activity among pagans and 'infidels' in this period.
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