IMC 2015: Sessions
Session 1721: Pastoral Reform, 600-1300: Ideas and Practice
Thursday 9 July 2015, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | EPISCOPUS: Society for the Study of Bishops & Secular Clergy in the Middle Ages |
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| Organiser: | Neslihan Şenocak, Department of History, Columbia University |
| Moderator/Chair: | Neslihan Şenocak, Department of History, Columbia University |
| Paper 1721-a | The Pillars of the Church: Theodicy, Correctio, and Early Medieval Church Reform (Language: English) Index terms: Canon Law, Ecclesiastical History, Monasticism, Theology |
| Paper 1721-b | Negotiating Lay Devotion in 12th-Century Cambrai: Controversy about the Cult of Our Lady in Times of Communal Unrest (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Hagiography, Lay Piety, Religious Life |
| Paper 1721-c | Being the Better Men: Pastoral Care and Mendicant Concepts of Masculinity (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Theology |
| Abstract | Care of souls has been designated as key to a number of historical reform narratives such as the Gregorian reform, the Fourth Lateran Council, and the emergence of mendicant orders. Yet, the changes in its scope and nature from 600 to 1300 are not studied sufficiently. The three papers in this session contribute to charting these changes respectively by examining the role of theodicy in early monastic reform, the pastoral use of Marian piety by the church leaders in the 12th-century Northern France, and the ideas of mendicants concerning pastoral care in the polemical literature of the 13th century. |