Conference: Authority and Consent in Medieval Religious Communities (28.10.2021-29.10.2021)

Conference: Authority and Consent in Medieval Religious Communities

Date:
28 – 29 October 2021 

Location:
Campus Borongaj
Borongajska c. 83d
10 000 Zagreb
Croatia

Abstract and Programme

Programme:

Thursday, 28 October

I. Introduction

9.30-9.45
Marko Jerković (Zagreb) and Gert Melville (Dresden): Opening Remarks

9.45-10.15
Pietro Silanos (Bari): “In sede apostolica specula constitute”: Papal Authority and Normative Religious Texts between XII and XIII Centuries.

II. Authority and Consent: Theory and Spirituality
Chair: Marko Jerković (Zagreb)

10.15-11.00
Mirko Breitenstein (Dresden): The Authority of Conscience

11.00-11.30
Coffee break

11.30-12.15
Julia Becker (Heidelberg): Aspects of Authority and Consent in the Regular Canon Monastery of Reichersberg based on the Theoretical Ideas of Gerhoch and Arno

12.15-13.00
Marcus Handke (Dresden): The Superior next to God. On the Triadic System of Hierarchy and Obedience in the “Formula novitiorum” (David of Augsburg)

Break

III. Authority and Consent: The Benedictine Tradition
Chair: Daniela Bianca Hoffmann (Bochum)

15.00-15.45
Shigeto Kikuchi (Tokyo): Authorities and “Consensus Building” in the Carolingian Monastic World

15.45-16.30
Nicolangelo D’Acunto (Milano-Brescia): Negotiated Consent: Monastic Communities between the Rule and the Autocracy of the Abbot in the 10th and 11th Centuries

16.30-17.00
Coffee break

17.00-17.45
Steven Vanderputten (Gent): The Limits of Fraternal Love. Integration Processes and the Debate over Authority and Consent in Monastic Governance (Late Eleventh-Early Twelfth Centuries)

17.45-18.30
Mayke de Jong (Utrecht): Authority and Consent: Child Oblation Revisited

Friday, 29 October

IV. Authority and Consent: The 12th and 13th Centuries
Chair: Jörg Sonntag (Dresden)

9.00-9.45
Marko Jerković (Zagreb): Towards the Rule of Law: Consensus and Constitution in the Formation of Religious Orders

9.45-10.30
Guido Cariboni (Milano-Brescia): From abbas abbatum to General Chapter: The Relationship Between Abbots and the Development of a Common Consent

10.30-11.00
Coffee break

11.00-11.45
Daniela Bianca Hoffmann (Bochum): Between the Monastery and the World: The Authority of Cistercian and Carthusian Monk-Bishops

V. Conclusion
11.45-12.15
Bernd Schneidmüller (Heidelberg): Final Remarks

Organisers

Mirko Breitenstein (Dresden)

Daniela Bianca Hoffmann (Bochum)

Marko Jerković (Zagreb)

Mirjana Matijević–Sokol (Zagreb)

Gert Melville (Dresden)

Jörg Sonntag (Dresden)