IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 1334: Networks of Pious Donations in Northern Europe, II: Foundations and Saints
Wednesday 5 July 2023, 16.30-18.00
| Organisers: | Embla Aae, Institutt for arkeologi historie kultur- og religionsvitenskap Universitetet i Bergen Anna-Stina Hägglund, Department of History, Åbo Akademi University, Turku |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Kirsi Salonen, Department of Finnish History, University of Turku |
| Paper 1334-a | Altar Foundations and Irrevocable Donations to Saints in Medieval Norway (Language: English) Index terms: Law, Lay Piety, Monasticism, Religious Life |
| Paper 1334-b | Between the Town Law and the Last Judgement: The 'Eternal' Foundations of Stockholm Burghers before the Reformation (Language: English) Index terms: Law, Lay Piety, Monasticism, Religious Life |
| Paper 1334-c | Gifts to St Olav in the Late Medieval Wills of the Lübeck Bergenfahrer (Language: English) Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Lay Piety, Monasticism, Religious Life |
| Abstract | This is one of two thematic sessions on the networks of pious donations in Northern Europe from the 13th century until the Reformation. Medieval donations were a religious and social phenomenon ubiquitous to all parts of Western Christendom. Our sessions explore a regional perspective on donations and donor networks with a focus on the social processes, law, and lived religion. Our sessions present observations about the practices that may have been particular, widespread, transmitted only to certain areas, or universal to medieval Christians. In this manner, the sessions enrich our understanding of pious donations within our subject areas. |