IMC 2011: Sessions
Session 712: Spiritual Poverty and Lay People, I
Tuesday 12 July 2011, 14.15-15.45
Sponsor: | Turku Centre for Medieval & Early Modern Studies, University of Turku |
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Organisers: | Pekka Tolonen, Department of Comparative Religion, University of Turku David Zbíral, Department for the Study of Religions, Masarykova univerzita, Brno |
Moderator/Chair: | David Zbíral, Department for the Study of Religions, Masarykova univerzita, Brno |
Paper 712-a | Inciting Charity: Preaching, Poverty, and Penitent Women in the 13th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Lay Piety, Religious Life, Sermons and Preaching |
Paper 712-b | Anonymous Chronicle of Laon (c. 1220) on Spiritual Poverty and Lay People (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Lay Piety, Religious Life, Social History |
Paper 712-c | Restoring Capital to the Carolingian Church: Comfortable Monasticism in 8th-Century Capitulary and Conciliar Texts (Language: English) Index terms: Monasticism, Religious Life |
Abstract | The panel explores the relationship between the ideal and practice of voluntary, spiritual poverty and the lay people between the 12th and 14th centuries. It focuses on how lay people saw spiritual poverty; how they supported those who claimed to be the pauperes Christi; how they participated and shared same goals reinterpreting old traditions and models and how these processes were viewed and guided from above; how spiritual poverty united lay people into a community or, on the contrary, divided and opposed particular groups or strata in medieval society, serving as demarcation criterion of 'otherness'. |