IMC 2011: Sessions
Session 423: The History of Poverty in the Work of Michel Mollat
Monday 11 July 2011, 19.30-21.00
| Organiser: | Gábor Klaniczay, Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Sharon Farmer, Department of History, University of California, Santa Barbara |
| Paper 423-a | The Seminar of Michel Mollat at the Sorbonne, 1962-74, and Research on Poverty in France (Language: English) Index terms: Medievalism and Antiquarianism, Teaching the Middle Ages |
| Paper 423-b | Michel Mollat and His Italian Colleagues (Language: English) Index terms: Medievalism and Antiquarianism, Teaching the Middle Ages |
| Paper 423-c | From Oexle to Geremek: The History of Poverty in Germany and Central Europe (Language: English) Index terms: Medievalism and Antiquarianism, Teaching the Middle Ages |
| Abstract | This session will recall the impact of the research done or stimulated by Michel Mollat, the medievalist who brought the issue of the history of poverty to a larger body of historians in the 1960s and 1970s. His weekly seminar on this topic at the Sorbonne, starting in 1962, has become a meeting place for social historians and researchers of medieval religious responses to the problem of poverty, above all the mendicant orders, and even to the broader domains of the history of literature, law and fine arts. The attraction of these seminars, stimulating workshops, conferences, and an impressive number of studies and books did not limit itself to the French milieux but extended to Italian, Anglo-Saxon, German, and East-European historiography. The three lectures will present a historiographic evaluation of these research fields. |