IMC 2011: Sessions

Session 1627: Conflicts as Catalysts: Conflict and Controversy between Mendicant Orders and Secular Clergy, II

Thursday 14 July 2011, 11.15-12.45

Sponsor:	Humanities Center, Harvard University / Exzellenzcluster 'Religion & Politik', Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster
Organiser:	Sita Steckel, Department of History, Harvard University / Exzellenzcluster 'Religion & Politik', Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster
Moderator/Chair:	Melanie Brunner, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds
Paper 1627-a	Antifraternalism as Mendicant Propaganda (Language: English) Guy Geltner, Faculteit van Geesteswetenschappen, Universiteit van Amsterdam Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Religious Life
Paper 1627-b	Monstrous Mendicants and Lady Wisdom: Gerson's Strategic Othering of the Friars (Language: English) Nancy McLoughlin, Department of History, University of California, Irvine Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Education, Religious Life, Theology
Paper 1627-c	Sumptuous Edifices: Fraternal Architecture and Anti-Fraternal Literature in Medieval Oxford (Language: English) James Knowles, Department of English, North Carolina State University Index terms: Architecture - Religious, Computing in Medieval Studies, Language and Literature - Middle English, Religious Life
Abstract	The double session explores conflicts between the mendicant orders and the established secular clergy between c. 1250 and 1430. It is assumed that these conflicts were not always destructive, but often productive and indeed catalytic events, prompting much social and religious theorizing and sensitizing audiences to specific issues and debates. By developing this angle to mendicant history, the session aims to contribute to our understanding of medieval social and religious theory and its underlying political mechanics. This second half of a double session covers both the textual 'building' of identities as well as debates about actual architecture.