IMC 2012: Sessions
Session 811: Constructing Social Order and Its 'Other': Heresy and Formation of Persecuting Societies in Medieval Europe
Tuesday 10 July 2012, 16.30-18.00
Sponsor: | Department for the Study of Religions, Masaryk University, Brno / TUCEMEMS - Turku Centre for Medieval & Early Modern Studies |
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Organisers: | Sita Steckel, Exzellenzcluster 'Religion & Politik', Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster David Zbíral, Department for the Study of Religions, Masarykova univerzita, Brno |
Moderator/Chair: | Sita Steckel, Exzellenzcluster 'Religion & Politik', Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster |
Paper 811-a | Cathars as Cultural Waste: A Global Theory of Cathar Heresy as the 'Other' of a New Social Order (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Mentalities, Social History, Theology |
Paper 811-b | Formation of a Regional Persecuting Society?: Germany, c. 1390-1405 (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Mentalities, Social History, Theology |
Paper 811-c | Looking for Heretics: A Comment on Scholarly Discourses around Heresy, Medieval and Modern (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Lay Piety, Mentalities |
Abstract | After the publication of The Formation of a Persecuting Society: Power and Deviance in Western Europe, 950-1250 by Robert I. Moore in 1987, the view of persecution and exclusion in medieval Europe changed significantly, as well as the approaches to social order and transgression, rules to follow and deviation from them, norm and dissent. The focus shifted from a straightforward discourse about repression of minorities to the study of complex processes of formation of identity by multi-layered references to a constructed/imagined 'Other'. The papers in this session aim at a rereading of Moore's book, evaluating his contribution after 25 years since the original publication, and applying his global theory to (or testing it against) particular case studies of medieval heresy, one of the pre-eminent 'Others' of medieval Christian order in the making. |