IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 1238: (Crossing) Borders between Laity and Clergy, III: Late Medieval Church Reform
Wednesday 8 July 2020, 14.15-15.45
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: | Jonathan Reinert, Institut für Spätmittelalter und Reformation, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen |
Paper 1238-a | John Wyclif's Concepts of Church, Clergy, and Laity (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Religious Life, Theology |
Paper 1238-b | 'No difference between noble and ignoble, between cleric and layman, rich and poor': The Brethren of the Common Life in Württemberg (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Lay Piety, Religious Life, Theology |
Paper 1238-c | Laicus, Clericus, and Religiosus in the Ecclesiastical Reform of the 15th Century: Redefining Theological Borders? (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Lay Piety, Religious Life, Theology |
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 the third session, some of the most important approaches to late medieval church reform are presented in view of the relation between laity and clergy. At the heart of the discussion will be the question, in which way the role of lay persons was strengthened in the concepts of John Wyclif, the Brethren of the Common Life and the reform councils of the 15th century. |