IMC 2022: Sessions
Session 1540: Social Belief and Dissidence, I: Transmitting Heretical Belief
Thursday 7 July 2022, 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 1540-a | Information, Belief, and Meaning-Making: Psychological Perspectives on Evidence for Belief Formation in Languedocian Inquisition Records (Language: English) Index terms: Anthropology, Law, Religious Life, Social History |
| Paper 1540-b | Talking Heresy: Illicit Speech and the Transmission of Religious Messages in the Trial Records of Kent Lollards, 1511-12 (Language: English) Index terms: Computing in Medieval Studies, Lay Piety, Religious Life, Social History |
| Abstract | Rather than something other-worldly, transcendent, internal, and somewhat intangible for the purposes of historical study, beliefs are very 'external' and social - not only socially communicated but also socially formed and remoulded. This panel looks at dissident, polemical, and inquisitorial sources in order to address the social dynamics of dissident beliefs, the channels and techniques of their transmission (be it orally or through writings). It also addresses the social processes that influenced their 'construction' by inquisitors and other churchmen in trial records, sermons, inquisitors' manuals, and polemical literature concerning heresy, the latter of which exerted tangible impact on the discursive formation of 'religion' in European thought. |