IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 347: Pastoral Power from Augustine to Louis the Pious
Monday 6 July 2020, 16.30-18.00
Organiser: | Jennifer Awes Freeman, Department of Art History University of Minnesota |
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Moderator/Chair: | Andrew Romig, Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University |
Paper 347-a | Practicing Augustinisme Politique: The Afterlife of Augustine's Anti-Donatist Realpolitik (Language: English) Index terms: Political Thought, Theology |
Paper 347-b | Gregory the Great and the Performance of Caritas (Language: English) Index terms: Politics and Diplomacy, Social History, Theology |
Paper 347-c | Shepherd and Lawgiver: Political Theology in the Carolingian Era (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Political Thought, Theology |
Abstract | This panel proposes to probe the boundaries between imperial and pastoral power in the early medieval Latin West. All three papers contest readings of long-held views about the symbols and meanings of pastoral power. Through a reading of Augustine of Hippo's Epistle 93, the first paper highlights the connection between Augustine's discourse of caritas and his performance of social and political control. The second paper turns to reflect on Gregory's Liber regulae pastoralis II and select letters that reveal a similar connection between the discourse of caritas and its performance. By drawing on a range of Carolingian imagery and poetry, the third paper will offer insights into how images of pastoral power migrated from their association with bishops and priests to imperial rhetoric. |