IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 1237: Bad Entanglements: Crime and Abuse in the Early Middle Ages, I
Wednesday 5 July 2023, 14.15-15.45
| Organiser: | Jan van Doren, Department of History, Princeton University |
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| Moderator/Chairs: | Gerda Heydemann, Geschichte der Spätantike und des frühen Mittelalters, Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut, Freie Universität Berlin Jan van Doren, Department of History, Princeton University |
| Paper 1237-a | Preaching an Abuse into an Illegal Act in Early Medieval Gaul (Language: English) Index terms: Canon Law, Law, Sermons and Preaching |
| Paper 1237-b | Driving out the Plagues of the Soul: Transgression and Penance in Lérinian Thought (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Religious Life, Sermons and Preaching |
| Paper 1237-c | Entangled in Crime: Societal Offences in Minor Canonical Collections (Language: English) Index terms: Canon Law, Daily Life, Ecclesiastical History, Social History |
| Abstract | This panel investigates how crimes and abuses were conceptualized by early medieval thinkers. Early medieval authors and compilers adapted biblical and Roman decrees and admonitions to their own day and age, translating, as Walter Ullmann put it, 'all-pervading' Christian virtues and vices into more practical social-legislative norms. Our panelists will address the processes through which specific crimes and abuses became conceptualized and prohibited. These processes by no means restricted themselves to the creation of social-legislative norms only and our panels will also consider extra-legal processes of norm making that helped ground crimes and abuses more firmly in early medieval society. |