IMC 2015: Sessions
Session 715: Reform and the Clergy, III: Communities, 750-1150
Tuesday 7 July 2015, 14.15-15.45
| Organiser: | Julia Steuart Barrow, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Maroula Perisanidi, Classics, Ancient History & Archaeology, University of Nottingham |
| Paper 715-a | Ruling the Life of the Enclosed Clergy in the Carolingian World: A Case of Central Reform or Local Regulation? (Language: English) Index terms: Canon Law, Ecclesiastical History |
| Paper 715-b | Archbishop Wulfstan and the Canons of Edgar: A New Rule for the Secular Clergy? (Language: English) Index terms: Canon Law, Ecclesiastical History, Law |
| Paper 715-c | Secular Canons in the Face of Reform: Life in the Flemish Collegiate Churches during the Spread of Canonical Renewal, c. 1070 - c. 1150 (Language: English) Index terms: Canon Law, Ecclesiastical History |
| Abstract | Historians interested in medieval ecclesiastical reform have often identified programmes to regulate the lives of clergy living in such communities as reform movements. In practice, this approach needs nuancing. Movements to regulate clerical life might be essentially local responses to perceived problems. The extent to which rules were followed is also unclear, especially in later Anglo-Saxon England. Clerical communities following the Rule of Aachen in the late 11th and the 12th centuries have often been overshadowed in historiography by studies of Augustinian canons, but the extent to which the 'older' communities were affected by newer ideas on simony, celibacy, and communal property is an important question. |