IMC 2018: Sessions
Session 718: Relations between Clerics and Monks in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages
Tuesday 3 July 2018, 14.15-15.45
Sponsor: | Presbyters in the Late Antique West Project, Uniwersytet Warszawski / Network for the Study of Late Antique & Early Medieval Monasticism |
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Organiser: | Jerzy Szafranowski, Instytut Historyczny, Uniwersytet Warszawski |
Moderator/Chair: | Yaniv Fox, Department of General History, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan |
Paper 718-a | Monasticism and Anti-Donatism in Augustine of Hippo (Language: English) Index terms: Monasticism, Religious Life, Sermons and Preaching |
Paper 718-b | Grounds for Clerical Ordinations of Monks in Late Antique Gaul (Language: English) Index terms: Lay Piety, Monasticism, Religious Life |
Paper 718-c | A Crisis of Identity: Canons, Monks, and the 9th-Century Reform of Saint-Denis (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Monasticism, Religious Life |
Abstract | This session, sponsored by the 'Presbyters in the Late Antique West' Project based at the University of Warsaw and the Network for the Study of Late Antique and Early Medieval Monasticism, will explore the intertwinement between the monastic and clerical orders in the Latin West of the first millennium. The first paper will be given by Matheus Figuinha (University of Campinas) who will examine how monks, led by Augustine of Hippo, helped reshape the Caecilianist church in Africa through ascetic ideals, all in the midst of the campaign against so-called Donatists. Afterwards, Jerzy Szafranowski (University of Warsaw) will investigate the reasons behind the large amount of clerical ordinations of Gallic monks from the 4th to 6th century, that is before the introduction of private mass, previously thought to be a decisive motive for monks accepting holy orders. Finally, Matthew Mattingly (University of Toronto) will look into the community of clerics in Saint-Denis and study how they coped with their change of status from canons to the monks bound by the Rule of St. Benedict. |