IMC 2022: Sessions
Session 1228: Blurred Boundaries and Religious Dissent, III: Intellectual and Textual Contexts
Wednesday 6 July 2022, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Medieval Heresy & Dissent Research Network, University of Nottingham |
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| Organiser: | Delfi-Isabel Nieto-Isabel, Departament d'Història Medieval, Paleografia i Diplomàtica, Universitat de Barcelona |
| Moderator/Chair: | Reima Välimäki, Department of Cultural History / Turku Centre for Medieval & Early Modern Studies, University of Turku |
| Paper 1228-a | Heterodoxy: Paganism, Lay Religiosity, and Heresy - Blurred Boundaries and Continuity from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages with an Emphasis on the Bogomils (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Lay Piety, Pagan Religions |
| Paper 1228-b | Books and the Blurred Boundaries of Scholarly Heresy in the Late Middle Ages (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 1228-c | Controversial Sanctity, Manuscript Issues: Revisiting the Book of Consolation of the Franciscan Abbess Juana de la Cruz, 1481-1534 (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Women's Studies |
| Abstract | Under the title 'Blurred Boundaries and Religious Dissent', this series of four conference sessions seeks to explore the disparity between the prescribed ideal of orthodoxy in the Middle Ages and Christianity as it was practiced by members of ecclesiastical, monastic, and lay communities. Thus, starting from different case studies with their own spatial and temporal particularities, the papers will be focusing on how the religious boundaries of the most diverse communities were negotiated. How and why was it possible or even desirable to preserve such blurred boundaries and how do they relate to what has been defined by R. I. Moore as 'dissent'? Participants will build on the sessions presented at the International Medieval Congress at Leeds (2021) under the title, 'Reconsidering Boundaries of Religious Dissent in the Long 12th Century'. Scholars in these sessions used their research as case studies to exemplify the permeability of the lines that were intended to separate ecclesiastical clerics from monastic authorities, male from female religious, laity from clergy, and orthodox from heretical. The current series of sessions will expand the temporal scope to include topics from the late 10th through the 14th centuries. |