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IMC 2019: Sessions

Session 253: Ill Will, Strife, and Bad Blood: The Religious Orders in the Late Middle Ages

Monday 1 July 2019, 14.15-15.45

Sponsor:German Historical Institute London (GHIL)
Organiser:Cornelia Linde, German Historical Institute, London
Moderator/Chair:Kirsi Salonen, Department of Finnish History, University of Turku
Paper 253-aFeisty Friars Fighting Their Foreign Fratres
(Language: English)
Johnny Grandjean Jakobsen, Nordisk Forskningsinstitut, Københavns Universitet
Index terms: Mentalities, Religious Life, Social History
Paper 253-bIrish-English Hostilities in the Mendicant Orders
(Language: English)
Cornelia Linde, German Historical Institute, London
Index terms: Mentalities, Religious Life, Social History
Paper 253-cThe Expulsion of German Monks from Italian Monasteries in the 16th Century
(Language: English)
Andreas Rehberg, Deutsches Historisches Institut, Roma
Index terms: Mentalities, Religious Life, Social History
Abstract

The three papers in this panel examine ethnic and cultural conflicts among members of the same religious communities. While all papers focus on the late Middle Ages, each paper looks at a different geographic region, which will allow for comparative thoughts and debates. Johnny Jakobsen discusses tensions in the mendicant communities of Scandinavia. Cornelia Linde highlights the conflicts between Irish and English mendicants on the British Isles. Andreas Rehberg, finally, explores hostilities against German monks in the monastic communities of Subiaco, Farfa, and S. Zeno in Verona in the late 15th and 16th century. Together, these three papers will shine a new light on the only at first sight peaceful coexistence of members of religious orders under the same roof.