IMC 2021: Sessions
Session 525: Excession, I: Excess as a Form of Expression in Religious Fields of Action
Tuesday 6 July 2021, 09.00-10.30
| Organisers: | Robert Friedrich, German Historical Institute, Paris Marie Jaros, Historisches Seminar, Universität Leipzig |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Marie Jaros, Historisches Seminar, Universität Leipzig |
| Paper 525-a | Excess in Reform: Simony and Nicolaitism in High Medieval France (Language: English) Index terms: Canon Law, Charters and Diplomatics, Ecclesiastical History, Religious Life |
| Paper 525-b | The Fool's Festivals of the High Middle Ages: Excess as Criticism Meets Criticism of Excess (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Political Thought, Religious Life |
| Paper 525-c | From One Excess to the Next: Wealth and Poverty in the Vitae of Mendicant Saints (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Hagiography, Monasticism, Religious Life |
| Abstract | Excessive behaviour can be found in all areas of life, today as in the Middle Ages. It can be used to express a wide variety of things: protest, wealth, claims to power, ruthlessness, knowledge... The first of the two sessions focuses on those expressions in religious fields of action starting with the clergy's excesses in France, then moving on to the dichotomy of extreme richness and poverty in mendicant vitae. The common question is: What goals did the actors pursue with their behaviour and how was it perceived by others? |