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IMC 2014: Sessions

Session 629: New Religious Histories, II: Naming and Describing Religious Groups

Tuesday 8 July 2014, 11.15-12.45

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
Moderator/Chair:Neslihan Şenocak, Department of History, Columbia University
Paper 629-aBad Behaviour: Action, Category, and the Law in Early Inquisitions
(Language: English)
Lucy Sackville, Exeter College, University of Oxford
Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Religious Life
Paper 629-bSpirituals, Zealots, and Michaelists: Categorising Franciscan Dissidents
(Language: English)
Melanie Brunner, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds
Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Monasticism
Paper 629-cFrom the Beginning: Inquisition and Discerning Dominican Identity
(Language: English)
Christine Caldwell Ames, Department of History, University of South Carolina, Columbia
Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Monasticism
Abstract

Historians have come rather unevenly to look at the relationship between terminology used by groups to describe themselves, by contemporary others to describe them, and by modern scholarship, who by choosing particular names endorse certain narratives. While the study of heresy has benefitted from a growing precision in 'naming', other areas lag behind. Here, two papers explore and problematise the words used to categorise, respectively, the followers of heretics and dissident Franciscan groups, while the third looks at how the perceived qualities and roles of an order shifted within the continuity of its name.