IMC 2019: Sessions
Session 1707: Lay Christian Piety and Material Cultures in the Later Middle Ages
Thursday 4 July 2019, 14.15-15.45
Sponsor: | Faculty of History, University of Cambridge |
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Organiser: | John H. Arnold, King's College, University of Cambridge |
Moderator/Chair: | Isabel Davis, Department of English & Humanities, Birkbeck, University of London |
Paper 1707-a | Individual and Corporate Material Pieties: The Guild Chapel at Stratford-upon-Avon (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - General, Architecture - Religious, Lay Piety |
Paper 1707-b | The Parishioner's Context: Material Experience and Late Medieval Sermons (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Religious, Lay Piety, Sermons and Preaching |
Paper 1707-c | The Materialities of Light and Sound in Lay Piety (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Lay Piety, Mentalities |
Abstract | This session explores different aspects of the interaction between ordinary Christian lay people, their experiences of Christian worship, and a variety of aspects of materiality: the material contexts of worship, the physical encounter with different kinds of material aspects of faith, and the symbolic work that 'materiality' does to encourage and sustain lay acts of belief. The focus will be mainly on England and France in the later middle ages, and the approaches draw upon literary, historical and archaeological sources. |