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IMC 2014: Sessions

Session 1726: Pastoral Care in the Reforming Centuries

Thursday 10 July 2014, 14.15-15.45

Sponsor:Program in Medieval Studies, Cornell University
Organiser:Philippa Byrne, Wadham College, University of Oxford
Moderator/Chair:Corinna Matlis, Medieval Studies Program, Cornell University
Paper 1726-aSaints, Sacraments, and Spiritual Care in 12th- and Early 13th-Century Miracle Accounts
(Language: English)
Louise Wilson, Department of History, University of Bristol
Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Hagiography, Lay Piety
Paper 1726-b'Undertake Useful Preaching': The Song of Songs Commentaries of Anselm of Laon and Peter the Chanter as Guidebooks for Pastoral Care
(Language: English)
Suzanne LaVere, Department of History, Indiana University - Purdue University, Fort Wayne
Index terms: Biblical Studies, Ecclesiastical History, Religious Life, Sermons and Preaching
Paper 1726-cCicero and the Penitent: Roman Rhetoric and Pastoral Dilemmas
(Language: English)
Philippa Byrne, Wadham College, University of Oxford
Index terms: Canon Law, Ecclesiastical History, Learning (The Classical Inheritance), Theology
Abstract

This panel considers the theory and practice of pastoral care in medieval Europe during the 11th and 12th centuries. Historiographical attention has typically focused on the Fourth Lateran Council and the institutional implementation of its canons. The panel seeks to move discussion beyond that traditional narrative, by considering the relationship between scholastic learning and lay piety in the centuries before 1215, and asking what pastoral care looked like when translated from theory to practice. The papers address how the reform movements of the 11th and 12th centuries, and the burgeoning of new monastic forms of life and devotion, transformed the ways in which pastoral care was conceived and implemented.