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This panel took place at the International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, July 4 2017. The panellists were John Arnold, Sabrina Corbellini, Kirsty Day, Emilia Jamroziak, and Amanda Power.
A standing-room only, bursting-at-the-seams turn-out for #s932, roundtable on medieval religion #imc2017 pic.twitter.com/YKtwIUud9n
— Yvonne Seale (@yvonneseale) July 4, 2017
Arnold: Anglophone & Francophone meta-narratives re medieval religion diff't b/c capital R Reformation looms more in England #s932 #imc2017
— Yvonne Seale (@yvonneseale) July 4, 2017
Arnold: Now might be a good moment for medievalists to engage more w/ anthropologists who work on modern Xianity/conversion #s932 #imc2017
— Yvonne Seale (@yvonneseale) July 4, 2017
Corbellini: Process of vernacularisation of medieval religion has been appropriated by nationalist narratives #s932 #imc2017
— Yvonne Seale (@yvonneseale) July 4, 2017
Corbellini: How to escape this? Move beyond your comfort zone, look at macro-narratives as well as micro #s932 #imc2017
— Yvonne Seale (@yvonneseale) July 4, 2017
.@DrKirstyDay: Thinking about race/whiteness & gender in the field, & how whiteness & Christianity are assumed to be default #s932 #imc2017
— Yvonne Seale (@yvonneseale) July 4, 2017
.@DrKirstyDay: We must think abt how our work on religion is co-opted by white supremacists & shaped by 19/20thC scholars #s932 #imc2017
— Yvonne Seale (@yvonneseale) July 4, 2017
Interesting aside from @DrKirstyDay: does our search for "pure" Cistercians, Franciscans etc feed into this way of thinking? #s932 #imc2017
— Yvonne Seale (@yvonneseale) July 4, 2017
.@DrKirstyDay: Must recognise influence of gender scholars on field; refs Caldwell-Ames' article: doi:10.1111/j.1478-0542.2012.00836.x #s932
— Yvonne Seale (@yvonneseale) July 4, 2017
Jamroziak: What replaces old master narratives/paradigms? Can't just build new ones wholesale #s932 #imc2017
— Yvonne Seale (@yvonneseale) July 4, 2017
Jamroziak: Why books on orders still w/ separate chapter on women. General laughter in room; down the back, I'm saying amen #s932 #imc2017
— Yvonne Seale (@yvonneseale) July 4, 2017
Power: Not often spoken about, but what kinds of histories are written by those who are religious vs those who aren't? #s932 #imc2017
— Yvonne Seale (@yvonneseale) July 4, 2017
Power: Vatican II urged orders to rediscover the lives of their founders, led to upsurge of scholarship in 60s/70s #s932 #imc2017
— Yvonne Seale (@yvonneseale) July 4, 2017
Power: Many scholars not aware of this, but how has this shaped some of field's assumption re: "authentic" vita apostolica? #s932 #imc2017
— Yvonne Seale (@yvonneseale) July 4, 2017