Late Medieval Anticlericalism as the Staging Ground of the Protestant Reformation

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Special Session

Organizer Name

Albrecht Classen

Organizer Affiliation

Univ. of Arizona

Presider Name

Albrecht Classen

Paper Title 1

Sola Fide in the Piers Plowman Tradition

Presenter 1 Name

Martin Laidlaw

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Univ. of Dundee

Paper Title 2

The "Opus Arduum Valde": An Anti-Clerical Commentary of the Apocalypse from the Late Fourteenth Century

Presenter 2 Name

Christoph Galle

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Phillips-Univ. Marburg

Paper Title 3

A Heathen Martyr and Regrets about Dead Saracens: Description of and Reflections on Killing and Corpses in Wolfram's Willehalm

Presenter 3 Name

Magdalena Butz

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Ludwig-Maximilians-Univ. München

Paper Title 4

"Reddite ergo Quae Sunt Caesaris Caesari": A Quotation from Matthew and Its Fate in Medieval Anticlerical Discourse

Presenter 4 Name

Romedio Schmitz-Esser

Presenter 4 Affiliation

Centro Tedesco di Studi Veneziani

Start Date

13-5-2017 10:00 AM

Session Location

Schneider 1325

Description

This session re-examines the meaning and history of anti-clericalism as it emerged already in the thirteenth century in literary and historical texts.

Albrecht Classen