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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
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-aInciting Charity: Preaching, Poverty, and Penitent Women in the 13th Century
(Language: English)
Alison More, Afdeling Geschiedenis, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen
Index terms: Hagiography, Lay Piety, Religious Life, Sermons and Preaching
Paper 712-bAnonymous Chronicle of Laon (c. 1220) on Spiritual Poverty and Lay People
(Language: English)
Pekka Tolonen, Department of Comparative Religion, University of Turku
Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Lay Piety, Religious Life, Social History
Paper 712-cRestoring Capital to the Carolingian Church: Comfortable Monasticism in 8th-Century Capitulary and Conciliar Texts
(Language: English)
Corinna Prior, Department of History, University of Toronto, Downtown
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'.