IMC 2011: Sessions
Session 512: Preachers of Poverty: Dominican Mediators between Poor and Rich in the Middle Ages
Tuesday 12 July 2011, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | Centre for Dominican Studies of Dacia |
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| Organiser: | Johnny Grandjean Jakobsen, Nordisk Forskningsinstitut, Københavns Universitet |
| Moderator/Chair: | Torstein Jørgensen, Centre for Medieval Studies, Universitetet i Bergen |
| Paper 512-a | Humbert of Romans on the Poor and the Rich (Language: English) Index terms: Religious Life, Sermons and Preaching, Social History, Theology |
| Paper 512-b | Beggars in Palaces: Dominican Ideal and Reality on Poverty in Medieval Northern Europe (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - Urban, Monasticism, Religious Life, Social History |
| Paper 512-c | Franciscans in the Holy Land (Language: English) |
| Abstract | The Dominican Friars Preachers were mendicants, meaning that they were supposed to live on the charity of other people. Socially, the friars had more in common with and closer relations to the Rich than to the Poor, but they always preached very eagerly in support of the Poor, this way endorsing Christian charity among the better-off people towards the less fortunate in medieval society. The papers of the session(s) wish to focus on the different aspects of the Friars Preachers' role as mediators between Poor and Rich in the Middle Ages, both in terms of practical life and in terms of ideology and preaching. |