Rethinking Reform I: Textual Perspectives

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Episcopus: Society for the Study of Bishops and Secular Clergy in the Middle Ages

Organizer Name

Maureen C. Miller, William L. North

Organizer Affiliation

Univ. of California-Berkeley, Carleton College

Presider Name

William L. North

Paper Title 1

The Edge of the Desert: Boundary Demarcation at the Hermitage of Fonte Avellana in the Age of Reform

Presenter 1 Name

Kathryn L. Jasper

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Illinois State Univ.

Paper Title 2

Adalbero of Laon’s Carmen ad Robertum regem in the Context of Eleventh-Century Reform

Presenter 2 Name

Theo Riches

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Exzellenzcluster "Religion und Politik," Westfälische Wilhelms-Univ. Münster

Paper Title 3

What Is a Reformer? What Is a Reform? A Comparison of Twelfth-Century Letter Collections

Presenter 3 Name

Julian Führer

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Deutsches Historisches Institut Paris/Univ. Zürich

Paper Title 4

Respondent

Presenter 4 Name

Richard Barton

Presenter 4 Affiliation

Univ. of North Carolina-Greensboro

Start Date

10-5-2013 3:30 PM

Session Location

Schneider 1350

Description

Research on reform in the eleventh and twelfth centuries has, for some time now, expressed dissatisfaction with our standard narratives of this period in ecclesiastical history. But new, broad interpretations have not yet emerged. Building on the discussions begun in the 2012 Kalamazoo panels sponsored by Episcopus, this session invites papers analyzing ecclesiastical reform in a specific 11th- or 12th-century text. The respondents will consider what sort of narrative of reform would best accommodate the evidence of their sources. - John S. Ott