IMC 2012: Sessions
Session 1615: Ecclesiastical Institutions and Individual Decisions in Britain and Germany
Thursday 12 July 2012, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | 'Germania Sacra', Akademie der Wissenschaften, Göttingen |
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| Organiser: | Jasmin Hoven-Hacker, Projekt 'Germania Sacra', Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen |
| Moderator/Chair: | Hedwig Röckelein, Seminar für Mittlere und Neuere Geschichte, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen / 'Germania Sacra', Akademie der Wissenschaften, Göttingen |
| Paper 1615-a | A Clergyman Out of Control: Portrait of a Bishop Around the Year 1000 (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Genealogy and Prosopography, Local History, Mentalities |
| Paper 1615-b | Parchment, Politics, and Pastoral Care: Administration in 13th-Century Lincoln (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Archives and Sources, Ecclesiastical History |
| Paper 1615-c | Which Rules?: Daughters of Princes in Late Medieval Nunneries between Monastic Ideals and Noble Background (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Gender Studies, Monasticism, Social History |
| Abstract | It is a truism that ecclesiastical institutions require rules. However, it is a truism as well that religious men and women and lay people did not always adhere to these rules. The session looks at different strata of lay and religious people from medieval Germany and Britain: at bishops, nuns and parishioners. We will ask whether the same rules applied to all people and how and why bishops 'went out of control', how and when pastoral care was created in times of crisis, and whether noble nuns were torn between their upbringing and religious ideals. |