IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 758: Myths of the Early Medieval Church, III: Priests, Their Sexual Partners, and Their Children in the Early Middle Ages
Tuesday 7 July 2020, 14.15-15.45
| Organisers: | Conrad Leyser, Worcester College, University of Oxford Carine van Rhijn, Departement Geschiedenis en Kunstgeschiedenis, Universiteit Utrecht |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Conrad Leyser, Worcester College, University of Oxford |
| Respondent: | Steffen Patzold, Seminar für Mittelalterliche Geschichte, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen |
| Paper 758-a | Was Nicolaism a Gregorian Concept? (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Sexuality |
| Paper 758-b | Illegitimate and Legitimate Clerical Children: How Much Were They Affected by the Celibacy Campaign? (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Mentalities, Sexuality |
| Abstract | There are competing myths about priests and sex in the early Middle Ages. Some see the clergy as sexually continent from the 4th century onwards; others see them as sexually unrestrained until the 11th century. This panel looks to take stock. How was clerical sexual activity discussed? What about the other parties involved - the women and children? And what, if anything, changed in the 11th century? |