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IMC 2021: Sessions

Session 1602: Anarchist Approaches to the Middle Ages, II: Rethinking Religion and Resistance

Thursday 8 July 2021, 11.15-12.45

Sponsor:Anarchist Approaches to the Middle Ages
Organiser:Claire Taylor, Department of History, University of Nottingham
Moderator/Chair:Stamatia Noutsou, Department for the Study of Religions, Masarykova univerzita, Brno
Paper 1602-aThe Saint and the Barbarians: Narratives of Civilisational Progress in 12th-Century Hagiography
(Language: English)
Huw Jones, Faculty of History, University of Oxford
Index terms: Hagiography, Religious Life
Paper 1602-b'Not only to the toil of the great geniuses': Subaltern Disobedience in Monastic Lordships between the Rhine and the Seine, c. 1120-1150
(Language: English)
Nicolas Schroeder, Département d'Histoire, Arts et Archéologie, Université Libre de Bruxelles
Index terms: Monasticism, Social History
Abstract

The second of two sessions sponsored by the Anarchist Approaches to the Middle Ages group. Following a successful round table discussion on this theme at IMC 2019 attended by an international group of medievalists from all career stages, these sessions are experiments in rethinking the Middle Ages using anarchist ideas and approaches. This session explores anarchist and anti-authoritarian approaches to religion and resistance.