Carolyn Muessig
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- March 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780198795643
- eISBN:
- 9780191836947
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198795643.003.0002
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
Chapter 1 traces the patristic and early medieval exegesis of Galatians 6:17. It assesses how language and imagery were appropriated and developed by eleventh- and twelfth-century monastic ...
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Chapter 1 traces the patristic and early medieval exegesis of Galatians 6:17. It assesses how language and imagery were appropriated and developed by eleventh- and twelfth-century monastic theologians (especially Peter Damian) into a soteriological system of penance and redemption that focused on Christ’s wounds. Significantly, it looks at examples of stigmatization before Francis of Assisi. These cases vary in their form; they gradually move from stigmata being almost exclusively associated with the sacerdotal order in the early Middle Ages to being linked to the laity by the early thirteenth century as with the cases of Peter the Conversus and Mary of Oignies.Less
Chapter 1 traces the patristic and early medieval exegesis of Galatians 6:17. It assesses how language and imagery were appropriated and developed by eleventh- and twelfth-century monastic theologians (especially Peter Damian) into a soteriological system of penance and redemption that focused on Christ’s wounds. Significantly, it looks at examples of stigmatization before Francis of Assisi. These cases vary in their form; they gradually move from stigmata being almost exclusively associated with the sacerdotal order in the early Middle Ages to being linked to the laity by the early thirteenth century as with the cases of Peter the Conversus and Mary of Oignies.
Emily Corran
Morgan Clarke and Emily Corran (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- May 2022
- ISBN:
- 9781526148902
- eISBN:
- 9781526166456
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7765/9781526148919.00010
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Social and Cultural Anthropology
This chapter concerns the intersection of two aspects of Western medieval Christian religion that have previously been considered in isolation. The first is ascetic control of the self, and in ...
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This chapter concerns the intersection of two aspects of Western medieval Christian religion that have previously been considered in isolation. The first is ascetic control of the self, and in particular, the voluntary vows made by secular people, for example, to fast, to abstain from marital relations or to go on pilgrimage. Vows of personal conduct (as I shall call these non-institutional vows), and voluntary physical abstinence more generally, have been of considerable interest to scholars of medieval sanctity and the body. In addition, the thirteenth century was a period in which laypeople came together to live quasi-monastic lives. The second aspect of medieval culture under consideration is casuistry. Here this is a term for the legalistic ethics that was taught to Catholic priests in the late medieval and early modern period. It first emerged in practical theology and canon law taught in the universities of Paris and Bologna around the turn of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries and was subsequently popularised in manuals for priests from the mid-thirteenth century. This kind of thought was chiefly concerned with resolving moral cases and practical dilemmas.Less
This chapter concerns the intersection of two aspects of Western medieval Christian religion that have previously been considered in isolation. The first is ascetic control of the self, and in particular, the voluntary vows made by secular people, for example, to fast, to abstain from marital relations or to go on pilgrimage. Vows of personal conduct (as I shall call these non-institutional vows), and voluntary physical abstinence more generally, have been of considerable interest to scholars of medieval sanctity and the body. In addition, the thirteenth century was a period in which laypeople came together to live quasi-monastic lives. The second aspect of medieval culture under consideration is casuistry. Here this is a term for the legalistic ethics that was taught to Catholic priests in the late medieval and early modern period. It first emerged in practical theology and canon law taught in the universities of Paris and Bologna around the turn of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries and was subsequently popularised in manuals for priests from the mid-thirteenth century. This kind of thought was chiefly concerned with resolving moral cases and practical dilemmas.
