IMC 2015: Sessions
Session 1732: Reform between Text and Experience
Thursday 9 July 2015, 14.15-15.45
Sponsor: | National Endowment for the Humanities / American Academy, Rome |
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Organiser: | William L. North, Department of History, Carleton College, Minnesota |
Moderator/Chair: | Fiona Somerset, Department of English, University of Connecticut |
Paper 1732-a | Material Culture, Identity, and Reform at the Lateran Basilica in the 11th and 12th Centuries (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Mentalities, Religious Life |
Paper 1732-b | Apostolic Fantasies: The Report of Patriarch John, Calixtus II, and Dreams of Reform in the 12th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
Paper 1732-c | Genealogies of Reform in the Franciscan Observance (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Religious Life |
Abstract | How is the reformer's imagination nourished and their energies mobilized? This panel explores the diverse ways in which lived (or imagined) experience combined with texts to challenge, transform, and re-stabilize religious life and structures. Through examinations of the powerful relationship between material culture of the Lateran canons and their identity, the impetus to reform provided by an account of a journey to the East, and the systematic recording of the lives and legends of Franciscan 'local heroes', panelists explore the essential role of 'textualized experience' in both articulating and institutionally anchoring visions of a better Christianity. |