IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 1038: (Crossing) Borders between Laity and Clergy, I: Blurry Borders in the High Middle Ages
Wednesday 8 July 2020, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | Mediävistenverband (German Medievalists' Society) |
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| Organisers: | Volker Leppin, Institut für Spätmittelalter und Reformation, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen Jonathan Reinert, Institut für Spätmittelalter und Reformation, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen |
| Moderator/Chair: | Volker Leppin, Institut für Spätmittelalter und Reformation, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen |
| Paper 1038-a | Monastic Superiority, Pastoral Care, Political Controversy: Anselm of Canterbury and the Laity (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Monasticism, Religious Life, Theology |
| Paper 1038-b | Living Evangelical Perfection on the Borderline between Wordly Sword and Spiritual Cincture: The Praise of the Knights Templar by Bernard of Clairvaux (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Lay Piety, Religious Life, Theology |
| Paper 1038-c | Between Secular and Spiritual: Songs by the 'Monk of Salzburg' (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - German, Monasticism, Religious Life, Sexuality |
| Abstract | The series of four interdisciplinary sessions (including history, theology, literature and art) investigates the issue of borders between laity and clergy in the time between the High Middle Ages and the eve of the Reformation: In which way were these borders drawn and stabilised, and how were they being crossed? How were they presented and reflected upon? The first session will focus on three well-known authors: Anselm of Canterbury, Bernard of Clairvaux and the 'Monk of Salzburg'. The main question is, in which way clear borders between laity and clergy are being blurred in their works and in their own life. |