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IMC 2010: Sessions

Session 826: The Discourse of Conflict: Monastic Communities Managing their Conflicts, 11th-12th Centuries

Tuesday 13 July 2010, 16.30-18.00

Sponsor:Conventus: Problems of Religious Communal Life in the High Middle Ages, Scientific Research Network of the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO, Belgium)
Organiser:Arnoud-Jan A. Bijsterveld, Department of Sociology, Tilburg University
Moderator/Chair:Steffen Patzold, Historisches Seminar, Universität Tübingen
Paper 826-aConflict Management and Hagiographic Manuscript Production: The Case of Bishop Otbert and Berenger of Saint-Laurent in Liège (1091-1119)
(Language: English)
Tjamke Snijders, Vakgroep Geschiedenis, Universiteit Gent
Index terms: Hagiography, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Monasticism
Paper 826-bFrom Insane to Injust: Representing Lay Behaviour in Monastic Dispute Records (11th-12th Centuries)
(Language: English)
Steven Vanderputten, Vakgroep Geschiedenis, Universiteit Gent
Index terms: Monasticism, Social History
Paper 826-cWords That Hit: How Monks Brought Laymen to Repent
(Language: English)
Arnoud-Jan A. Bijsterveld, Department of Sociology, Tilburg University
Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Monasticism, Social History
Abstract

Decades of medieval conflict studies have revealed the various ways of litigation and conflict management of both monks and laymen, and their respective repertoires of public rituals, mediation, the use of violence and emotions. This session, which deals with evidence from the 11th- and 12th-century Southern Low Countries, focuses on two ill-investigated instruments of monastic conflict behaviour, namely the instrumentalization of moralising arguments in conflicts between monks and their lay enemies, and hagiographic manuscript production as a means of expressing a critical stance toward outside enemies.