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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
Organiser:Jerzy Szafranowski, Instytut Historyczny, Uniwersytet Warszawski
Moderator/Chair:Yaniv Fox, Department of General History, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan
Paper 718-aMonasticism and Anti-Donatism in Augustine of Hippo
(Language: English)
Matheus Coutinho Figuinha, Departamento de História, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil
Index terms: Monasticism, Religious Life, Sermons and Preaching
Paper 718-bGrounds for Clerical Ordinations of Monks in Late Antique Gaul
(Language: English)
Jerzy Szafranowski, Instytut Historyczny, Uniwersytet Warszawski
Index terms: Lay Piety, Monasticism, Religious Life
Paper 718-cA Crisis of Identity: Canons, Monks, and the 9th-Century Reform of Saint-Denis
(Language: English)
Matthew Mattingly, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto, Downtown
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.