IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 1606: Texts and the Repression of Medieval Heresy: Twenty Years After, II
Thursday 6 July 2023, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Centrum pro digitální výzkum náboženství / 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/Chairs: | Robert Shaw, Oriel College, University of Oxford Reima Välimäki, Department of Cultural History / Turku Centre for Medieval & Early Modern Studies, University of Turku |
| Paper 1606-a | Ad extorquendum veritatem: The Situational Production of 'Truth' in the Interaction between Inquisitorial and Defendant Agencies at Trial, Giaveno, 1335 (Language: English) Index terms: Anthropology, Ecclesiastical History, Law, Social History |
| Paper 1606-b | A Network Analysis of Incriminations in the Inquisition Register of Bologna, 1291-1310 (Language: English) Index terms: Computing in Medieval Studies, Ecclesiastical History, Social History |
| Paper 1606-c | A Geographic Perspective on Peter Seila's Inquisition in Quercy, 1241-1242 (Language: English) Index terms: Computing in Medieval Studies, Ecclesiastical History, Geography and Settlement Studies, Social History |
| Abstract | The publication of Texts and the Repression of Medieval Heresy, edited by Caterina Bruschi and Peter Biller (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2003), underlined a key development in modern scholarship on medieval religious dissent: the understanding that texts – inquisition trial records and manuals, learned treatises, chronicles, and other histories, etc. – not only furnish our knowledge of 'heresies', but themselves played a critical role in the shaping and instrumentalising reactions to them. Twenty years on from the publication of this influential volume, this panel seeks to take a still broader perspective on the importance of texts for the framing and attempted suppression of dissidence. It will take in not only the writings associated with persecuting authorities but also those of the persecuted themselves. It will also expand the temporal and thematic scope of discussion, featuring research related to all periods of the Middle Ages and addressing not only the most well-known medieval heresies (e.g. Catharism and Waldensianism) but also the more obscure, as well as the closely related matter of witchcraft and its persecution. |