IMC 2011: Sessions
Session 1115: Marginally Poor
Wednesday 13 July 2011, 11.15-12.45
Organiser: | Anna A. Grotans, Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures, Ohio State University |
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Moderator/Chair: | Anna A. Grotans, Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures, Ohio State University |
Paper 1115-a | Poor People in Papal Ceremony: The Evidence of Glosses (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - General, Ecclesiastical History, Social History |
Paper 1115-b | Reform and Property Management in Late Medieval Women's Convents in Southern Germany (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - General, Monasticism, Religious Life, Women's Studies |
Abstract | The papers in this section investigate perceptions of and issues related to poverty based upon texts that traditionally have been considered marginal, in some cases literally so: hitherto unknown glosses, commentaries and unpublished archival documents. The first paper analyzes glosses to Juvenal's Satires and the influence of Christian ethics on interpretations of figures such as the poor poet and student; the second investigates perceptions of the poor in glosses to a practical text dealing with papal ceremony. The third contextualizes perception of the poor in the reality of late medieval life by discussing how German convents dealt with the realities of poverty in their own houses and what measures were taken in order to sustain the prescribed religious way of life. |