IMC 2016: Sessions
Session 1719: Methods and Morality of Late Medieval Almsgiving: The Significances of Food
Thursday 7 July 2016, 14.15-15.45
| Organiser: | Lucy Christine Barnhouse, Department of History, Fordham University |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Maximilian Schuh, Historisches Seminar, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg |
| Paper 1719-a | On the Quantity of Alms Received: The Regulation of the Size of Bread Distributions in Late Medieval Konstanz (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Economics - Urban, Lay Piety, Social History |
| Paper 1719-b | Food in Almsgiving in the Southern Low Countries, c. 1250 - c. 1600 (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Lay Piety, Medicine, Social History |
| Paper 1719-c | Transactions of Impoverishment: Roberto Rossellini's Franciscan Figures (Language: English) Index terms: Medievalism and Antiquarianism, Political Thought, Religious Life |
| Abstract | As has been widely observed, alms-giving was symbolically and socially important in the urban environments of the later Middle Ages. Often highly ritualized, almsgiving connected diverse persons and groups. This panel examines how food was used and understood in such exchanges, by recipients as well as donors. The first two papers in the session, based on archival research, demonstrate that practical and theological considerations were intimately related in the decisions made about almsgiving by individuals and institutions. The final paper in the session considers how imagined acts of alms-giving have been used to comment on the Late Middle Ages in film. |