IMC 2021: Sessions
Session 2019: The Social Dynamics of Religious Dissent, I: Communication and Community
Friday 9 July 2021, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | Centre for the Digital Research of Religion / Dissident Networks Project (DISSINET), Masarykova Univerzita, Brno |
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| Organisers: | Robert Shaw, Oriel College, University of Oxford David Zbíral, Department for the Study of Religions, Masarykova univerzita, Brno |
| Moderator/Chair: | Robert Shaw, Oriel College, University of Oxford |
| Paper 2019-a | Towards the Social, Spatial, and Discursive Patterns in Medieval Inquisitorial Records: Data Collection and Analysis in the Dissident Networks Project (DISSINET) (Language: English) Index terms: Anthropology, Computing in Medieval Studies, Lay Piety, Religious Life |
| Paper 2019-b | Suspicious Talk and the Lay Experience of Inquisition in Medieval Languedoc (Language: English) Index terms: Anthropology, Lay Piety, Religious Life |
| Paper 2019-c | The Social Dynamics of Heterodox Reading in Late Medieval England (Language: English) Index terms: Anthropology, Lay Piety, Religious Life, Social History |
| Abstract | Communication, exchange, and the identities and communities they help create arguably have a bearing on the understanding of dissident cultures of the Middle Ages, and thereby on the very notion of medieval heresy. While much of the recent debate has focused on the grand narrative of the reality vs. construction of heresy in texts, significantly less attention has been paid to a social scientific take on sources that allow a more fine-grained study of the emergence of dissident communities in daily interactions and exchanges, including the interplay between inquisitors and suspects. This session aims to cover this gap and testify to the still unexplored opportunities offered mostly by inquisitorial and other archival materials. |