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Morals and Authority: Micro and Macrocosm

03 feb 2023 14:00 - 17:00
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Sorbonne Université
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Séminaire d'Emily Corran, médieviste, UCL, et chercheuse-résidente 2022-2023 de l'IEA de Paris, dans le cadre de son cycle de séminaires "Conscience and the Sources of Moral Authority", coorganisé avec Christophe Grellard, EPHE-PSL.

Présentation

Professor Ian Forrest (Oxford)
‘Microhistories of moral authority in late medieval parishes’
Respondant: Frédérique Lachaud
In this paper Ian Forrest will present evidence from fifteenth-century English and French visitations and church courts that – he contends – illuminate claims made by women to possess moral authority. They are micro-histories in the sense of dealing with politics in very small worlds, but also in deriving from minute pieces of evidence: in several cases a single sentence in the record. The protagonists had no institutional or documentary voice. They performed a physical politics of direct action and theatre. Their claims to moral authority were a world apart from literate discussions of conscience and moral authority, but they may be the typical engagements with those abstract values for the majority of the late medieval European population.

Professor John Sabapathy (UCL)
‘La conscience de l'hypocrisie au début du XIVe siècle : Boniface VIII et Angelo Clareno en dialogue’
Respondant: Marie Dejoux
Cette intervention mettra en conversation deux personnages très différents sur l'hypocrisie, la conscience et la croyance religieuse au tournant du XIIIe siècle : le pape Boniface VIII, au sommet de la hiérarchie de l'Église, et le franciscain Angelo Clareno, au bas de l'échelle. Qui était le plus grand hypocrite, et qu'est-ce que cela pouvait signifier ?

Plus d'informations sur cette séance et sur le cycle auprès de : emily.corran@ucl.ac.uk

Casuistry, the Laity and Ecclesiastical Hierarchy in the Late Middle Ages: Rule-based ethics in complex institutions
01 September 2022 - 30 June 2023
27850
03 Feb 2023 17:00
Emily Corran
No
28508
Seminars and Summerschools
Paris