Ecclesia & Violentia. Violence against the Church and Violence within the Church in the Middle Ages, Bydgoszcz, September 20-22, 2013
ABOUT THE CONFERENCE:
The conference 'Ecclesia et Violentia. Violence against the Church and Violence within the Church in the Middle Ages' is devoted to the phenomenon of violence in relation to the medieval Church, as well as within the structures of that institution. The aim of this conference is to gain a clearer understanding of hostile and violent acts against the religious institutions and clergy alike, forceful contestation of property rights of the Church, etc. This conference seeks to explore also the interpersonal violence between clergymen or aggressive competition between local churches, moreover, the role of violence in maintaining discipline within the communities of the regular and secular clergy, as well as many aspects of these phenomena, including the religious, legal or ideological interpretation of these issues. The given issues seem to be neglected, especially on the ground of the Central European historiographies. Hence the organizers hope that the new discussion will help to create new fields of research and will shed some light on the given topics, and thus enrich our understanding of the role of the Church in medieval European society.
Organizers:
dr hab. Jacek Maciejewski, prof. nadzw. - przewodniczący / chairman
dr Radosław Kotecki - sekretarz / secretary
Programme:
Session I 14:00-16:30
David A. Traill (University of California, Davis, USA): Rough Sex and Rape in the 'Carmina Burana'
Arkadiusz Adamczuk (University Library of KUL Lublin, Poland): The Scenes of the Violence in Church and against the Church in the Iconography of the Miniatures of the Gratian's Decree
Szymon Wieczorek (University of Rzeszow, Poland): 'A beato Maximino se letaliter ictum eiulando indicavit'. Visions of Saints Personally Executing Cruel Physical Punishments in Tenth- and Eleventh-Century French Hagiography
Short Discussion
Session II 16:30-19:00
Jacek Maciejewski (Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz) Violence within the Medieval Church as a Subject of Scholarly lnvestigation
Joelle Rollo-Koster (University of Rhode Island, USA): Episcopal and Papal Elections: A Long History of Violence
Kristin Doll (Northwestern University, USA): 'Tantus furor, tantus stupor': Murder, Fire, and Reconcialiation in the Communal Uprising against the Bishop of Laon
Alfonso Zera (University of Salerno, Italy): An Excellent Murder: Violent Death of a Campania Bishop in the 13th Century Discussion
Session III 9:00-11:30
Andrea Vanina Neyra (CONICET / Universidad de Buenos Aires): Violence, Clergy and Canon Law: Burchard of Worms's 'Decretum'
Gergely Kiss (University of Pecs, Hungary): The Defence of the Church in the Light of Royal Laws and Synodał Decrees in Medieval Hungary (11th-14th Centuries)
Pavel Krafl (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic in Brno): 'Spoliatores bonorum ecclesiasticorum et captivatorum clericorum' in Bohemian and Moravian Synodał Legislation
Paweł Kras (The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland): 'Persuasio et coercitio '. The Church and Heresy 1n the Middle Ages
Paweł F. Nowakowski (Jesuit University Ignatianum in Kraków, Poland): The Power and Violence as the Topics and Methods of Conducting a Religious Dispute - the Case of the Hussite Polemics
Short Discussion
Session IV 12:00-14:30
Ann Wesson Garau (University of Toronto, Canada): Intersections Between Political Colonization and Clerical Violence in Medieval Sardinia
Chris Dennis (Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK): 'De clericis qui pugnaverunt aut pugnandi gratia armati fuerunt'. Bishop Geoffrey of Coutances an the Penitential Ordinance of Ermenfrid of Sion: Episcopal Attitudes to Clerical Participation in Warfare in Normandy at the Time of the Conquest of England
Michael Burger (Auburn University at Montgomery, USA): Honor, Anger, and Aggresion by Clergy in Thirteenth-Century
England Patricia Cullum (University of Huddersfield, UK): Clerics and Violence in Late Fourteenth Century England
Discussion
Session V 15:30-18:30
Natalia Bikeeva (Kazan Federal University, Russia): The Revolts of the Nuns at Poitiers and Tours in the Second Half of the Sixth Century
Michał Tomaszek (Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, Poland): Violence in Monastery: Lynch, that Could Have Happened. On the Base of Story Recorded by Ekkehard IV from Sankt Gallen
Milena Svec Goetschi (University of Ztirich, Switzerland): Violence and Apostasy - Conflicts as Cause or Side Effect? Silvija Pisk (University of Zagreb, Croatia): Violence against the Pauline Fathers in Medieval Croatia
Aleksandra Filipek (University of Wrocław, Poland): 'Vis et metus' or How the Monastic Chronicler - Ludolf of Sagan - Presented the Relationships of Canons Regular with Local Princes (14th Century)
Discussion
Session VI 9:00-11:30
Zofia Wilk-Woś (Social Academy of Scences in Łódz, Poland): Violence against the Clergy and Violence by the Clergy if the Light of the the Fifteenth-Century acta archiepiscopalia of the Archibishops of Gniezno
Marcin Sumowski (Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland): Clergy and Violence in the Medieval Prussian Cities
Anna Anisimova (Russian Academy of Sciences): Once upon a Time in Faversham
Anna Kowalska Pietrzak (University of Lódź, Poland): Murders Beatings and Robberies. The Clergy as Victims and Perpetrators of Violence in late Medieval Central Poland
Short Discussion
Session VII 12:00-14:00
Radosław Kotecki (Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz): Clergy's Complaints and Pleas to the Rulers for Protection from Violence in Western Europe (10th-12th Centuries)
Craig Nakashian (Texas A&M University-Texarkana, USA): Servant of God and Servant of the King: Geoffrey Plantagenet's Military Service to Henry II
Jakub Morawiec (University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland): Archidiocese in Nidaross towards Political Encounters in Late 12th-Early 13th Century Norway Walker Reid Cosgrove (Dordt College, USA) Rhone's Crossing: Violence and Assassination in the South of France
Discussion
