IMC 2018: Sessions
Session 848: Memory and Inquisitio, II: Recollecting and Recording
Tuesday 3 July 2018, 16.30-18.00
Sponsor: | Trivium - Tampere Centre for Classical, Medieval & Early Modern Studies |
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Organiser: | Sari Katajala-Peltomaa, School of Social Sciences & Humanities, University of Tampere |
Moderator/Chair: | Gábor Klaniczay, Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest |
Paper 848-a | 'It happened when we had that reddish-brown cow': Levels of Recollection and Narration in the Canonization Process of Thomas Cantilupe, 1307 (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Hagiography, Lay Piety, Social History |
Paper 848-b | Shaping Memory: Limoux Nègre and the Apostles' Creed, 1326-1329 (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Religious Life |
Paper 848-c | The Evaluation of Evidence and Memory in Concluded Canonisation and Heresy Cases (Language: English) Index terms: Archives and Sources, Ecclesiastical History, Hagiography |
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 set of sources. |