IMC 2018: Sessions
Session 541: Memory and Inquisitio, I: Miracles, Healings, and Malefactors
Tuesday 3 July 2018, 09.00-10.30
Sponsor: | Department for the Study of Religions, Masarykova univerzita, Brno |
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Organiser: | David Zbíral, Department for the Study of Religions, Masarykova univerzita, Brno |
Moderator/Chair: | Sari Katajala-Peltomaa, School of Social Sciences & Humanities, University of Tampere |
Paper 541-a | Inquisition, Memory, and Miracle in the 15th Century: Examples from the Canonizations of Bernardino of Siena and Vincent Ferrer (Language: English) Index terms: Archives and Sources, Hagiography, Lay Piety, Religious Life |
Paper 541-b | Memories of Healing and Healers in Late Medieval Italian Canonization and Inquisition Protocols (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Lay Piety, Medicine, Social History |
Paper 541-c | Inquisitorial Processes in Italian Judicial Registers (Libri Maleficiorum) and Canonization Processes at the End of the Middle Ages: Changing Individual Reminiscences within Collective Memory (Language: English) Index terms: Archives and Sources, Hagiography, Law, Social History |
Abstract | Even if canonization processes and inquisition trials scrutinized the opposite ends of religious spectrum, 'heretical depravity' or saint and miracles, they were both based on similar judicial form, inquisitio. As public fame of an incident or person was a prerequisite for a case to be tried under inquisitio, both these sources contain a lot of recollection of past events. It goes without saying that there were also huge differences in the quantity and quality of free narration, hierarchal relationships during the hearing, methods of recording, etc. both between different types of hearings and various collections. Both fields of study are currently quite separate, and not much in-depth comparative work has been done. However, nuanced comparison would offer potential for fuller comprehension of how people gave meaning to their past experiences, how memories were reconstructed and elements of lived religion narrated. The aim of these sessions is to begin to fill this gap and scrutinize the similarities and differences and ask how past events were interrogated, remembered, narrated, and recorded in these two sets of sources. |