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IMC 2014: Sessions

Session 1311: The Clergy in Western Europe, 700-1200, IV: Clergy in the Era after the Gregorian Reform

Wednesday 9 July 2014, 16.30-18.00

Organiser:Julia Steuart Barrow, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds
Moderator/Chair:Emilia Jamroziak, Forschungsstelle für Vergleichende Ordensgeschichte (FOVOG), Technische Universität Dresden / Institute for Medieval Studies / School of History, University of Leeds
Paper 1311-aThe Importance of the Secular Clergy to Medieval Society: The Example of England, 1066-1216
(Language: English)
Hugh M. Thomas, Department of History, University of Miami, Florida
Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Religious Life, Social History
Paper 1311-b'Utrum clericis liceat proprium habere': The Property of the Clergy in 12th-Century England
(Language: English)
Maroula Perisanidi, Classics, Ancient History & Archaeology, University of Nottingham
Index terms: Canon Law, Ecclesiastical History
Abstract

In the period after the Gregorian Reform education and legal knowledge became more structured: clergy were deeply involved in this process but were also influenced by it. In this session speakers will look at developments in the activities of the clergy in 12th-century England, beginning with a general overview of their significance and then turning to look at the role of clergy in pastoral care and then at the question of clerical property in canon law.