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 |
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Organiser: | Claire Taylor, Department of History, University of Nottingham |
Moderator/Chair: | Stamatia Noutsou, Department for the Study of Religions, Masarykova univerzita, Brno |
Paper 1602-a | The Saint and the Barbarians: Narratives of Civilisational Progress in 12th-Century Hagiography (Language: English) 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) 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. |