IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 258: Myths of the Early Medieval Church, I: Sex, Power, and Salvation
Monday 6 July 2020, 14.15-15.45
| Organiser: | Carine van Rhijn, Departement Geschiedenis en Kunstgeschiedenis, Universiteit Utrecht |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Irene van Renswoude, Huygens ING, Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, Amsterdam / Faculteit Geesteswetenschappen, Universiteit Utrecht |
| Paper 258-a | Sexing the Clergy: The State of the Question (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Mentalities |
| Paper 258-b | Beyond 'Eigenkirchen': Priests, Local Churches, and the Ecclesiastical Organisation of the Carolingian Empire (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Social History |
| Paper 258-c | Not Reform but Salvation: Rethinking the Carolingian Reforms (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Abstract | This session highlights three lines of recent research that are changing our understanding of the early medieval church. What if we consider the early medieval priesthood as a group of men who were, on the one hand, ordained ministers, but also fathers and sexual partners? What if these same secular clerics were not the passive, powerless puppets at the mercy of lords who owned the churches where these priests ministered? And what if we move beyond top-down models of reform when we try to understand how and why the church (in its widest meaning) underwent important changes in this period? |