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) |
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Organiser: | Arnoud-Jan A. Bijsterveld, Department of Sociology, Tilburg University |
Moderator/Chair: | Steffen Patzold, Historisches Seminar, Universität Tübingen |
Paper 826-a | Conflict Management and Hagiographic Manuscript Production: The Case of Bishop Otbert and Berenger of Saint-Laurent in Liège (1091-1119) (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Monasticism |
Paper 826-b | From Insane to Injust: Representing Lay Behaviour in Monastic Dispute Records (11th-12th Centuries) (Language: English) Index terms: Monasticism, Social History |
Paper 826-c | Words That Hit: How Monks Brought Laymen to Repent (Language: English) 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. |