Rethinking Reform III: Unity or Plurality? Local Reforms and Global Narratives, Eleventh-Twelfth Centuries
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Iuris Canonici Medii Aevi Consociatio (ICMAC), the International Society of Medieval Canon Law
Organizer Name
Maureen C. Miller, William L. North
Organizer Affiliation
Univ. of California-Berkeley, Carleton College
Presider Name
John S. Ott
Presider Affiliation
Portland State Univ.
Paper Title 1
The Local Implementation of Reform Ideals: The Augustinian Canons of Saint Ursus in Aosta
Presenter 1 Name
Cheryl Kaufman
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Univ. of Texas-Austin
Paper Title 2
The Battle against Heresy Visualized in an Eleventh-Century Moralia in Job (Bamberg: Staatsbibliothek, MS bibl. 41)
Presenter 2 Name
Charles S. Buchanan
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Ohio Univ.
Paper Title 3
Reforms at Different Paces: The Disturbance Caused by the Arrival of Papal Bulls in Lotharingia and Flanders in the 1070s
Presenter 3 Name
Brigitte Meijns
Presenter 3 Affiliation
Katholieke Univ. Leuven/Univ. Catholique de Louvain
Paper Title 4
Respondent
Presenter 4 Name
William L. North
Start Date
11-5-2013 1:30 PM
Session Location
Bernhard 213
Description
Monastic Reform Movement, Canonical Reform Movement, Gregorian Reform, Papal Reform Movement…such terms, common in the historiography of the eleventh and twelfth centuries, homogenize and centralize the phenomenon of reform, and detach the theory and practice of reform from local contexts. Continuing the fruitful discussions begun in the Kalamazoo panels on “Rethinking Reform” in 2012, and as one of the 2013 “Rethinking Reform” panels (of which two others are sponsored by Episcopus), this panel interrogates the intersections and contradictions between global notions of reform, like the Gregorian Reform, and the ways in which reform was conceptualized and enacted in localities. The critical examination of the different levels of reform and loci of reforming authority is particularly important in developing a new, more dynamic and inclusive set of narratives and explanatory models for the phenomenon of religious reform. Papers examining specific cases of reform in localities and regions; local or transregional mechanisms of reform; the interaction between local and global in canon law; or instances of conflict between reform agendas or reforming authorities are particularly welcome.
Greta Austin
Rethinking Reform III: Unity or Plurality? Local Reforms and Global Narratives, Eleventh-Twelfth Centuries
Bernhard 213
Monastic Reform Movement, Canonical Reform Movement, Gregorian Reform, Papal Reform Movement…such terms, common in the historiography of the eleventh and twelfth centuries, homogenize and centralize the phenomenon of reform, and detach the theory and practice of reform from local contexts. Continuing the fruitful discussions begun in the Kalamazoo panels on “Rethinking Reform” in 2012, and as one of the 2013 “Rethinking Reform” panels (of which two others are sponsored by Episcopus), this panel interrogates the intersections and contradictions between global notions of reform, like the Gregorian Reform, and the ways in which reform was conceptualized and enacted in localities. The critical examination of the different levels of reform and loci of reforming authority is particularly important in developing a new, more dynamic and inclusive set of narratives and explanatory models for the phenomenon of religious reform. Papers examining specific cases of reform in localities and regions; local or transregional mechanisms of reform; the interaction between local and global in canon law; or instances of conflict between reform agendas or reforming authorities are particularly welcome.
Greta Austin