IMC 2019: Sessions
Session 1650: The Economy of Salvation
Thursday 4 July 2019, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Irish Research Council |
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| Organiser: | Elaine Pereira Farrell, School of History, University College Dublin / Departement Geschiedenis en Kunstgeschiedenis, Universiteit Utrecht |
| Moderator/Chair: | Rob Meens, Departement Geschiedenis en Kunstgeschiedenis, Universiteit Utrecht |
| Paper 1650-a | Commuting Penance in the Early Middle Ages (Language: English) Index terms: Canon Law, Ecclesiastical History, Law, Social History |
| Paper 1650-b | Manumission in Insular Penitentials (Language: English) Index terms: Canon Law, Ecclesiastical History, Law, Social History |
| Paper 1650-c | Discipline and Freedom: Material Practices of Atonement in Early Medieval Ireland (Language: English) Index terms: Canon Law, Ecclesiastical History, Law, Social History |
| Abstract | The papers in this session will concentrate on the economic aspects of early medieval penance, as reflected in the early medieval penitential literature and other normative texts. Paper A shows the practice of commuting fasts for pecuniary payments to the church, giving alms to the poor, and manumitting slaves both in the insular and Carolingian worlds. Paper B shows instances in which Irish penitentials recommend manumission as a form of commutation of penances, aiming to understand the slaves' status after manumission and how this form of commutation sits with the general disapproval towards manumission in early Irish law. Paper C shows forms of compensation, punishment and material practices of atonement, drawing attention to what appears to have been a single early medieval Irish normative tradition, rather than a tradition divided into separate secular and ecclesiastical jurisdictions. |