IMC 2011: Sessions
Session 812: Spiritual Poverty and Lay People, II
Tuesday 12 July 2011, 16.30-18.00
| 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: | Pekka Tolonen, Department of Comparative Religion, University of Turku |
| Paper 812-a | The Cistercian Lay Brother and the Spiritualization of Physical Labour in the 12th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Lay Piety, Monasticism, Religious Life |
| Paper 812-b | 'Poor of Christ' Not So Poor: A Paradox of the Cathar Heresy (Language: English) Index terms: Lay Piety, Religious Life |
| Paper 812-c | Hosting, Almsgiving, Loaning, and Selling: Diverse Transactions between Waldensian Brethren and their Followers in late 14th Century Pomerania (Language: English) Index terms: Lay Piety, 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'. |