IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 320: Networks of Dissent and Persecution, III: Fluidity and Connections in Religious Identity Construction
Monday 3 July 2023, 16.30-18.00
| 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: | Michael Bailey, Department of History, Iowa State University, Ames |
| Paper 320-a | Coming to Terms: Beguins, Beguines, Tertiaries, Beghards, and the Network Boundary Problem in the 14th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Lay Piety, Religious Life |
| Paper 320-b | The Life of Clare of Rimini as a Case Study in the Flow of Controversial Religious Claims (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Lay Piety, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 320-c | Sisters of Odelind: A Hidden Network of Beguines and Sisters Becomes Visible (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Lay Piety, Religious Life |
| 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. The final session of the series will tackle processes of co-construction of 'heretical' identities and discuss how the dynamics of these processes constantly trespassed and redefined the boundaries of what could be considered religious dissent among lay communities. |