IMC 2013: Sessions

Session 1532: The Politics of Piety in Late Medieval Europe

Organiser:	Iris Palenik, Institut für die Jüdische Geschichte Österreichs, St Pölten
Moderator/Chair:	Brenda M. Bolton, University of London
Paper 1532-a	Donation and Commemoration: Austrian Nobility and Its Piety in the Late Middle Ages (Language: English) Markus Gneiß, Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung, Universität Wien Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Lay Piety
Paper 1532-b	Piety in 14th-Century Hungary: The House of Anjou, Monastic Orders, and Saintly Cults (Language: English) Sonja Lessacher, Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung, Universität Wien Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Lay Piety
Paper 1532-c	Politics in Sermons?: Viennese Theologians and the Destruction of the Austrian Jews, 1420-1 (Language: English) Iris Palenik, Institut für die Jüdische Geschichte Österreichs, St Pölten Index terms: Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Literacy and Orality, Sermons and Preaching, Technology
Abstract	In the last few decades, historical research of piety and devotions in the Middle Ages has increased rapidly, as is evident from the works of Berndt Hamm or Gabriela Signori. Religious beliefs played a key role in everyday life. Through the course of the Middle Ages we can see a development towards a more individualized form of piety but also the growing dominance of politicizing. This session wants to dedicate its efforts to examine different ways of how piety an devotion was politicized by the nobility and theologians in late medieval Europe.