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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
Moderator/Chair:Anna A. Grotans, Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures, Ohio State University
Paper 1115-aPoor People in Papal Ceremony: The Evidence of Glosses
(Language: English)
Jörg Bölling, Seminar für Mittlere und Neuere Geschichte, Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Index terms: Archaeology - General, Ecclesiastical History, Social History
Paper 1115-bReform and Property Management in Late Medieval Women's Convents in Southern Germany
(Language: English)
Melanie Hömberg, Historisches Seminar, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
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traditionally have been considered marginal, in some cases literally so: hitherto unknown glosses, commentaries and unpublished archival documents.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.