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IMC 2014: Sessions

Session 1529: New Communities of Interpretation: Religion in Europe, c. 1300-1550, IV: Sacred or Secular? - Re-Evaluating the Boundaries between the Religious and the Secular in Late Medieval Civic Society, (i)

Thursday 10 July 2014, 09.00-10.30

Sponsor:Rijksuniversiteit Groningen / COST Action IS 1301 'New Communities of Interpretation: Contexts, Strategies & Processes of Religious Transformation in Late Medieval & Early Modern Europe'
Organiser:Suzan Folkerts, Afdeling Geschiedenis, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
Moderator/Chair:Suzan Folkerts, Afdeling Geschiedenis, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
Paper 1529-aThe Multiplicity of Links: Confraternities and Social Cohesion in Late Medieval Urban Communities
(Language: English)
Arie van Steensel, Departement Geschiedenis en Kunstgeschiedenis, Universiteit Utrecht
Index terms: Economics - Urban, Social History
Paper 1529-bMind the Gap: Urban Cooperation in the Establishment of the Cult of Our Sweet Lady of 's-Hertogenbosch in the Late 14th Century
(Language: English)
Lianne van Beek, Afdeling Geschiedenis, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
Index terms: Lay Piety, Religious Life, Social History
Paper 1529-cTheatre Performances in Schools and Monasteries in the 16th-Century Low Countries
(Language: English)
Samuel Mareel, Vakgroep Letterkunde, Universiteit Gent
Index terms: Language and Literature - Dutch, Lay Piety, Religious Life
Abstract

This session will reconsider conventional views on urban religious culture in the late medieval Low Countries by showing the interaction between religious people and laity. This is done by combining the study of religious expressions, such as literary texts, performances (e.g. sermons, processions, the presentation of plays), and visual works of art, with a socio-cultural approach on urban communities, networks, and spaces. This approach transgresses the boundaries between religious communities, movements, and their elites, on the one hand, and secular communities and institutions, on the other. By looking at networks of both religious and lay people, their spaces and places, and their religious manifestations, this session will contribute to a better understanding of urban religiosity and religious identities in late medieval urban society.