IMC 2022: Sessions
Session 230: Lay Teaching in the Late Middle Ages: Breaking Intellectual and Spiritual Boundaries, I
Monday 4 July 2022, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | International Society for the Study of Medieval Theology (IGTM) |
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| Organiser: | Krijn Pansters, Department of Biblical Sciences & Church History, Tilburg University |
| Moderator/Chair: | Ingo Klitzsch, Lehrstuhl für Kirchen- und Dogmengeschichte, Augustana Hochschule, Neuendettelsau |
| Paper 230-a | Being the Teaching: Living Spirituality Lessons from the Franciscan Secular Tradition (Language: English) Index terms: Lay Piety, Religious Life, Theology |
| Paper 230-b | The Teaching Body: Corporeal Performance as Example in High and Late Medieval Lay Culture (Language: English) Index terms: Lay Piety, Religious Life, Theology |
| Paper 230-c | 'Speaking like Brugman': Lay Teachers Speaking like Brugman (Language: English) Index terms: Lay Piety, Religious Life, Theology |
| Abstract | Most medieval teachers were learned theologians with a substantial degree of training in didactic technique and sacred eloquence. They were usually members of ecclesiastical and/or spiritual elites with the right papers for preaching and pastoral activity. From roughly the 12th century, more and more laypeople started to become teachers themselves, either by edifying verbo et exemplo and becoming spiritual exemplars themselves, or by way of a religious pedagogy that included new forms of expression and exhortation, simplified speech, use of the vernacular, images, and gestures, and poetry. The first kind of non-clerical teachers will be the subject of this session. |