IMC 2014: Sessions
Session 729: New Religious Histories, III: Diversity and Authority in the Medieval Mendicant Orders
Tuesday 8 July 2014, 14.15-15.45
| 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: | Ian Forrest, Oriel College, University of Oxford |
| Paper 729-a | Competition between Franciscans and Dominicans in 13th-Century England (Language: English) Index terms: Monasticism, Religious Life |
| Paper 729-b | Sorority through the Ages: Modern Nuns' Chronicles and Convent Culture in Catalan Female Monasteries, 13th-17th Centuries (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Monasticism, Women's Studies |
| Paper 729-c | 'Nam Dominus noster eorum est': Encountering and Approaching the Other in Early Minorite Life and Logic (Language: English) Index terms: Monasticism, Religious Life, Theology |
| Abstract | Many studies of religious orders, ecclesiastical history, and lay religion are carried out within distinct fields. One way to approach this problem might be through the idea of religious 'choice', or even a 'religious market'. But allowing for geographical variations, and across the imposed categories of orthodoxy and heresy, a diverse range of groups offered preaching, pastoral care and other services, sometimes in co-operation and sometimes in fierce competition. How did contemporaries make sense of various forms of diversity and which perceptions and social ties narrowed their choices and influenced their allegiances? |