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 |
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Moderator/Chair: | Neslihan Şenocak, Department of History, Columbia University |
Paper 629-a | Bad Behaviour: Action, Category, and the Law in Early Inquisitions (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Religious Life |
Paper 629-b | Spirituals, Zealots, and Michaelists: Categorising Franciscan Dissidents (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Monasticism |
Paper 629-c | From the Beginning: Inquisition and Discerning Dominican Identity (Language: English) 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. |