Politics, Society, and Liturgy in the High Middle Ages: Forging Identity
Sponsoring Organization(s)
PSALM-Network (Politics, Society and Liturgy in the Middle Ages)
Organizer Name
Paweł Figurski
Organizer Affiliation
Univ. Warszawski
Presider Name
William Chester Jordan
Presider Affiliation
Princeton Univ.
Paper Title 1
"A Fire That Burns the Unworthy": Liturgy and Politics on the Byzantine Periphery
Presenter 1 Name
Sean Griffin
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Dartmouth College
Paper Title 2
"New Wine into New Wineskins": Medieval Liturgy and the Making of Poland
Presenter 2 Name
Paweł Figurski
Paper Title 3
The Mixed Nature of a Twelfth-Century Breviary of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem: The Influence of Politics and Political Identity
Presenter 3 Name
Cara Aspesi
Presenter 3 Affiliation
Univ. of Notre Dame
Start Date
10-5-2018 3:30 PM
Session Location
Schneider 1245
Description
While medieval scholarship has focused on the rituals of social interactions in secular and ecclesiastical contexts (i.e. Gerd Althoff, Geoffrey Koziol, Philippe Buc), liturgical texts and their political and societal impacts have not often been included in those studies. This is a problem, since liturgy, in both its codified form and its practical application, was an essential part of medieval societies, and a rich corpus of primary source material on medieval liturgical practices is available to scholars today. Only a few scholars have noticed the significant link between liturgy and politics (i.e. Carl Erdmann, Ernst Kantorowicz, Arnold Angenendt, Michael McCormick, Éric Palazzo, Cecilia Gaposchkin). Therefore, the goal of the proposed session, as well as the society that organizes it (the PSALM-Network), is to deepen the study of liturgy as an integral component of social and political histories.
Papers in this session will therefore investigate the mutually influencing relationship between liturgy and the socio-political by focusing on the concept of identity. Liturgy was a device by which political, social and religious identities were forged, re-created, manipulated and confirmed. Examples include the role of liturgy in shaping political, religious, and social identities in the borderlands of Christianity (Rus, Poland, the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem).
Pawel Figurski
Politics, Society, and Liturgy in the High Middle Ages: Forging Identity
Schneider 1245
While medieval scholarship has focused on the rituals of social interactions in secular and ecclesiastical contexts (i.e. Gerd Althoff, Geoffrey Koziol, Philippe Buc), liturgical texts and their political and societal impacts have not often been included in those studies. This is a problem, since liturgy, in both its codified form and its practical application, was an essential part of medieval societies, and a rich corpus of primary source material on medieval liturgical practices is available to scholars today. Only a few scholars have noticed the significant link between liturgy and politics (i.e. Carl Erdmann, Ernst Kantorowicz, Arnold Angenendt, Michael McCormick, Éric Palazzo, Cecilia Gaposchkin). Therefore, the goal of the proposed session, as well as the society that organizes it (the PSALM-Network), is to deepen the study of liturgy as an integral component of social and political histories.
Papers in this session will therefore investigate the mutually influencing relationship between liturgy and the socio-political by focusing on the concept of identity. Liturgy was a device by which political, social and religious identities were forged, re-created, manipulated and confirmed. Examples include the role of liturgy in shaping political, religious, and social identities in the borderlands of Christianity (Rus, Poland, the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem).
Pawel Figurski