IMC 2014: Sessions

Session 1011: The Clergy in Western Europe, 700-1200, I: Education, Training, and Liturgy

Organiser:	Julia Steuart Barrow, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds
Moderator/Chair:	William T. Flynn, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds
Paper 1011-a	More Than Pastoral Care Alone: Local Priests and Their Communities in the Carolingian Period (Language: English) Carine van Rhijn, Departement Geschiedenis en Kunstgeschiedenis, Universiteit Utrecht Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Education, Law, Literacy and Orality
Paper 1011-b	Clerical Apprenticeship and Clerical Education, 9th-11th Centuries (Language: English) Bernard Gowers, Department of History, King's College London Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Education, Literacy and Orality
Paper 1011-c	The Languages of the Liturgy in the Middle Ages (Language: English) Helen Gittos, School of History, University of Kent Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Language and Literature - Middle English, Lay Piety, Liturgy
Abstract	Education, even if at only a moderate level, was essential for clerics and clerics were expected to act as educators too, both to each other and to their flocks. This session will consider the role of clergy as sources of expert knowledge within their local communities; the differences between clerical education and clerical apprenticeship, and the use of the English language in the liturgy.