IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 220: Networks of Dissent and Persecution, II: Dynamics of Information Extraction and Exchange in Repressive Contexts
Monday 3 July 2023, 14.15-15.45
| 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/Chairs: | Delfi-Isabel Nieto-Isabel, Departament d'Història Medieval, Paleografia i Diplomàtica, Universitat de Barcelona Reima Välimäki, Department of Cultural History / Turku Centre for Medieval & Early Modern Studies, University of Turku |
| Paper 220-a | Lay Religious Talk and the Transmission of Allegedly Heretical Information in Languedocian Inquisition Records (Language: English) Index terms: Lay Piety, Mentalities, Religious Life |
| Paper 220-b | Networks of Authority and Solidarity: Ordering the Massacre at Avignonet in 1242 (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Mentalities, Religious Life |
| Paper 220-c | On the Heresy Grapevine: Transmitting Knowledge of Condemned Texts (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Theology |
| 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. Specifically, this second session will look into the strategies used by individuals and collectives within and outside the boundaries of orthodoxy to obtain and disseminate information that helped define their own networks. |