IMC 2021: Sessions
Session 1221: Reconsidering the Boundaries of Religious Dissent in the Long 12th Century, I
Wednesday 7 July 2021, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Department for the Study of Religions, Masarykova Univerzita, Brno |
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| Organisers: | Andra-Nicoleta Alexiu, Historisches Seminar, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster Stamatia Noutsou, Department for the Study of Religions, Masarykova univerzita, Brno |
| Moderator/Chair: | Delfi-Isabel Nieto-Isabel, Departament d'Història Medieval, Paleografia i Diplomàtica, Universitat de Barcelona |
| Paper 1221-a | Blazing Words in Sulfury Tongues: Heresy as a Symptom of Ecclesiastical Corruption (Language: English) Index terms: Monasticism, Religious Life, Sermons and Preaching, Women's Studies |
| Paper 1221-b | Reform, Dissent, and the Monasticisation of the World in Geoffrey of Auxerre's Polemical Sermons (Language: English) Index terms: Monasticism, Religious Life, Sermons and Preaching |
| Paper 1221-c | Sexuality, Marriage, and Religious Dissent in Burchard of Worm's Corrector sive medicus (Language: English) Index terms: Canon Law, Daily Life, Ecclesiastical History, Sexuality |
| Abstract | The aim of the two sessions is to reconsider heresy with a broader understanding of the concept of religious dissent during the long 12th century. We seek to explore this topic by discussing a selection of the various discourses on religion that emerged during this period. We will demonstrate the growing diversity of religious ideology in Western Europe by discussing how these discourses targeted a variety of audiences and served many different purposes. Thus, the sessions will focus on the tumultuous atmosphere wherein various reforming groups risked their total exclusion from the Church and society by attempting to re-negotiate the boundaries of 'orthodoxy' from within. In addition, given the purpose of their mission and their position within the Church as monks, nuns, or laymen, these authors felt pressured to better flesh out and redefine certain categories from a social or gender-based perspective, while holding on to tradition. |