IMC 2015: Sessions
Session 125: Gregorian Reform / Ecclesiastical Reform: Italian Perspectives on Historiographical Traditions in Dialogue
Monday 6 July 2015, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | National Endowment for the Humanities / American Academy, Rome |
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| Organiser: | Tommaso di Carpegna Falconieri, Dipartimento di Scienze della Comunicazione e Discipline Umanistiche, Università degli Studi di Urbino 'Carlo Bo' |
| Moderator/Chair: | John Howe, Department of History, Texas Tech University |
| Paper 125-a | The Origin and Present Uses of the Concept of 'Gregorian Reform' (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Political Thought |
| Paper 125-b | Shared Symbols, Individual Meanings: Giovanni Miccoli on the Hermeneutical Diversity and Dynamism of Thought among the 'Gregorians' (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Political Thought |
| Paper 125-c | The Reform of the Church in the 11th Century: A Concept That Belongs in the Plural (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Political Thought |
| Abstract | The concept of 'the Gregorian Reform', as conceived about a century ago and still in use, interprets the various currents of ecclesiastical reform emerging between the 1040s and 1120s as a unitary project which, after a period of preparation, found its execution and full realization under Gregory VII (1073-1085). These presentations place this reading in dialogue with an alternative interpretation - advanced chiefly by Italian, German, and American historians - that understands reform as a complex, polyvalent phenomenon. Multi-directional and influenced by many individuals - distinct in their interests, experiences, and ideals - only with time and struggle did the reform reach any eventual synthesis. |