Start Ups and Flops II: Pastors and Disasters

Sponsoring Organization(s)

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

Organizer Name

Michael Burger

Organizer Affiliation

Auburn Univ.-Montgomery

Presider Name

Evan A. Gatti

Presider Affiliation

Elon Univ.

Paper Title 1

Like Some Good Bishop: Gregory of Tours on Bishops, Illnesses, and Plagues

Presenter 1 Name

Amanda Kenney

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Univ. of Missouri-Columbia

Paper Title 2

Calming the Storm: The Role of Bishops in Dalmatian Towns during the Hungarian Takover in the Twelfth Century

Presenter 2 Name

Judit Gál

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Eötvös Loránd Univ.

Paper Title 3

Arnulf of Lisieux and a Failed Reform

Presenter 3 Name

Gustav Zamore

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Stockholms Univ.

Paper Title 4

Installed with God's Blessings, Broken by History's Mysteries: The Strange Demise of Albi's Bishop Bernard de Castenet

Presenter 4 Name

Kathryn M. Karrer

Presenter 4 Affiliation

Independent Scholar

Start Date

11-5-2018 3:30 PM

Session Location

Schneider 1225

Description

This session concerns maintaining institutions or practices by bishops and the secular clergy in the Middle Ages. Bishops were often confronted with the problem of meeting reversals. How did bishop respond to setbacks or even catastrophes, from plague to invasion to simply resistance to their programs?

Michael Burger