IMC 2018: Sessions
Session 1747: Memory of Death, Memory after Death: Salvation, Church, and Money in the Hanseatic Zone
Thursday 5 July 2018, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Towarzystwo Naukowe, Toruń |
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| Organiser: | Piotr Oliński, Instytut Historii i Archiwistyki, Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika, Toruń |
| Moderator/Chair: | Emilia Jamroziak, Institute for Medieval Studies / School of History, University of Leeds |
| Paper 1747-a | Pfarrers sele nicht vorgessen: The Parish Clergy's Concern to Obtain Salvation (Language: English) Index terms: Mentalities, Religious Life, Social History |
| Paper 1747-b | Sword and Redemption: Efforts of the Knights to Obtain Salvation (Language: English) Index terms: Mentalities, Religious Life, Social History |
| Paper 1747-c | Memory in a Mobile World: Strategies of the Economy of Salvation of the Hanseatic Burghers (Language: English) Index terms: Mentalities, Religious Life, Social History |
| Abstract | The concern to obtain salvation motivated people to undertake commemorative and prayerful actions, which also had the social and economic context. In the Christianity of the Late Middle Ages the attempts to obtain salvation were also connected with financial matters. Any foundations, bestowals and indulgences, the aim of which was to ensure prayerful memory, had their own established material value. Thus, the concern for salvation became one of the most important sources of finances for the Church. Eternity shaped everyday life and appropriate conduct could give hope to obtain salvation and eternal life. Various social and professional groups encountered on the way to salvation. Clergymen, knights, and burghers were motivated by the memory of the upcoming death to ensure themselves prayerful memory after their death. The article discusses the questions whether this common goal was accomplished with the same means and actions, and how those actions to obtain salvation were determined by social background, mentality, and the vicissitudes of life. |