IMC 2021: Sessions
Session 612: Citizenship Discourses in the Early Middle Ages, II: Local Worlds, Universal Claims
Tuesday 6 July 2021, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Onderzoekschool Mediëvistiek, Universiteit Leiden / Utrecht Centre for Medieval Studies, Universiteit Utrecht |
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| Organiser: | Els Rose, Onderzoekinstituut voor Geschiedenis en Kunstgeschiedenis, Universiteit Utrecht |
| Moderator/Chair: | Julia M. H. Smith, Faculty of History, University of Oxford |
| Respondent: | Anna Adamska, Onderzoekinstituut voor Geschiedenis en Kunstgeschiedenis, Universiteit Utrecht |
| Paper 612-a | From the Wretched World to the Contemplative City: Civic Terminology in 12th-Century Monastic Thought (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Monasticism, Theology |
| Paper 612-b | Medieval Conceptualisations of the 'Global' (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Language and Literature - Latin, Liturgy, Religious Life |
| Abstract | Based at Utrecht University, the NWO VICI-project, Citizenship Discourses in the Early Middle Ages, 400-1100 (2017-2022), explores the development and impact of civic vocabulary in the Latin world 'after Rome'. In two sessions, the project members will capitalize on to IMC's main focus of climate and global awareness to uncover how specific civic and religious communities shaped their prospect on their environment, local and global, in Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages. In this second session, the focus will be on monastic houses and urban liturgical centres. Two papers will explore the ways in which civic vocabulary is used and performed to articulate the identity of the faithful gathered in local, lay and monastic, communities, as citizens of the world. As a third paper in this session a general response is envisaged, to respond to all five papers and to open the discussion. |