IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 120: Networks of Dissent and Persecution, I: Circulation and Distortion of Normative Religious Discourses
Monday 3 July 2023, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | School of History, Queen Mary University of London |
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| Organiser: | Delfi-Isabel Nieto-Isabel, Departament d'Història Medieval, Paleografia i Diplomàtica, Universitat de Barcelona |
| Moderator/Chair: | Lucy Sackville, Exeter College, University of Oxford |
| Paper 120-a | Misinterpreting Origen: Holiness and Heresy of the Ante-Nicene Theologian in the High Middle Ages (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Sermons and Preaching, Theology |
| Paper 120-b | Permeable Network of Discourses: How Images, Ideals, and Ideas Were Transmitted through the Various Works of Bernard of Clairvaux (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Monasticism, Sermons and Preaching |
| Abstract | Religious dissent is intrinsically defined in opposition to established, normative religious frameworks, but its varied expressions in turn contribute to reshaping religious authority and orthodoxy. The three sessions in this strand will explore the overlap between medieval dissent and persecution from a network perspective, focusing on the actors and the relations between them but, especially, on the flow of ideas, narratives and religious knowledge across and within mainstream and non-mainstream Christian networks. In particular, this first session will revolve around the way in which normative discourses were constructed but also misconstrued and challenged within the accepted boundaries of officially sanctioned religiosity. |