IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 1338: (Crossing) Borders between Laity and Clergy, IV: On the Eve of the Reformation
Wednesday 8 July 2020, 16.30-18.00
| 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: | Sven Gröger, Graduiertenkolleg 1662 'Religiöses Wissen im vormodernen Europa (800–1800)', Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen |
| Paper 1338-a | Do We Need a Priest?: Penance in Late Medieval Spirituality (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Lay Piety, Religious Life, Theology |
| Paper 1338-b | From Layman to Cleric: The Degree of Consecration in the Late Middle Ages as a Transformative Process (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Liturgy, Theology |
| Paper 1338-c | Clerical Instruction or Civic Representation?: Demarcating and Crossing Borders between Laity and Clergy in Medieval Religious Plays (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - German, Lay Piety, Performance Arts - General, Religious Life |
| 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. The final session will explore the tension of drawing borders and blurring borders between lay persons and clerics which on the eve of the Reformation was expressed and discussed on different levels: from presenting this tension in the liturgy, to reflecting upon it spiritually and theologically, to enacting it in religious plays. |