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IMC 2010: Sessions

Session 1614: Transmission of Ideas or Indigenous Traditions: The Birth of Religious Reform Movements in Central Europe

Thursday 15 July 2010, 11.15-12.45

Sponsor:Medieval Institute, University of Notre Dame
Organiser:Marcela K. Perett, Medieval Institute, University of Notre Dame
Moderator/Chair:Marcela K. Perett, Medieval Institute, University of Notre Dame
Paper 1614-aHoly Bodies on Move: Cult Novelties in Bohemian Church Treasuries before 1400
(Language: English)
Kateřina Horníčková, Filosofický ústav, Akademie věd ČR
Index terms: Art History - Painting, Lay Piety, Religious Life
Paper 1614-bPious Travellers: Pilgrimage and its Effect on Devotional Practices in Pre-Hussite and Hussite Bohemia
(Language: English)
Jan Hrdina, Prague City Archives
Index terms: Lay Piety, Religious Life
Paper 1614-cThe French Connection: Patronage of the Last Bishop of Prague
(Language: English)
Alice Klima, Brown University
Index terms: Architecture - Religious, Monasticism
Abstract

The way in which individual travel contributed to the sky-rocketing number of options for individuals to live out their spirituality in the late medieval church has yet to be properly understood. The movement of people brought with it the movement of religious practices and of ideas, many of which came to take one quite a different meaning or significance in their new milieu. The Holy Roman Empire with its diversity of competing principalities proved to be a fertile ground for such exchanges. The various movements for reform of existing practices or for adoption of new ones excited worshipers but taxed the ecclesiastical authorities, whose attempts to demarcate orthopraxy could hardly keep up with the influx of devotional novelties. The session welcomes contributions on the impact of the innovations as well as resistance to them.