IMC 2014: Sessions
Session 529: New Religious Histories, I: Old and New Narratives
Tuesday 8 July 2014, 09.00-10.30
Organisers: | Melanie Brunner, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds Amanda Power, Department of History, University of Sheffield Sita Steckel, Historisches Seminar, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster |
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Moderator/Chair: | Elisabeth Salter, Department of English Literature & Creative Writing, Aberystwyth University |
Paper 529-a | Reframing the Friars Minor: From Old Origins to New Beginnings (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Monasticism, Religious Life |
Paper 529-b | Diachronic Structures: A Comparative Approach to the Monastic World of the Middle Ages (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Monasticism |
Paper 529-c | The Multiple Middle Ages: Modernization and Diversification Approaches to Religious History (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Religious Life |
Abstract | In order to work towards a new history of the religious and monastic orders, orthodoxy and heresy, and the wider church in the medieval period, we must address the master narratives on which most historical study continues to be based, and which are thus reinforced by modern scholarship. This session examines the effect of these narratives and modes of conceptualisation on modern historiography in order to propose some new approaches to the wider difficulties challenges of the study of late medieval religious history. |