IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 1213: Recognition across Borders, III: Instruments of Recognition
Wednesday 8 July 2020, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Medieval & Early Modern Studies / Institute for Religion & Critical Inquiry, Australian Catholic University, Victoria |
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| Organiser: | Christopher Ocker, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley / San Francisco Theological Seminary |
| Moderator/Chair: | Constant J. Mews, School of Philosophical, Historical & International Studies, Monash University, Victoria |
| Paper 1213-a | Drawing Lines between Friars and Priests in Late Medieval Germany: Documentary Instruments (Language: English) Index terms: Canon Law, Charters and Diplomatics, Monasticism, Religious Life |
| Paper 1213-b | Saints and Relics on Two Sides of the Great Western Schism (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Hagiography, Politics and Diplomacy, Social History |
| Paper 1213-c | All the Pleasures King David Never Knew...: On Jewish Song Culture and the Art of In-Between (Language: English) Index terms: Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Literacy and Orality, Music, Social History |
| Abstract | Each session of the series combines specialists in different periods, places, sources, and/or groups. This one focusses on instruments of recognition, this session calls attention to the ways in which group-identity is informed by a middle ground, and not just the separation that groups may otherwise try to enact. It examines three distinct situations: clerical conflicts in late medieval German towns, the papal schism, and the Yiddish and Hebrew linguistic community at the end of the Middle Ages. The papers consider different instruments used to communicate traditions that were not only shared by partisans but also bridged the physical spaces separating parties: charters, saints and their relics, and songs and melodies. |