***CALL FOR PAPERS***
"GENUS REGALE ET SACERDOTALE:
THE IMAGE OF THE BISHOP AROUND THE MILLENNIUM"
An Interdisciplinary Conference at the University of Chicago
28-30 October 1999
Keynote Speakers: Michel Parisse (Universite de Paris I - Sorbonne),
Hiltrud Westermann-Angerhausen (Schnutgen Museum-Koln), and Arnold
Angenendt (Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat, Munster).
Ruotger, the biographer of Brun, archbishop of Cologne and Otto the Great's
brother, offers us an ideal image of the tenth-century bishop. As a dux and
bishop, as a kinsman to emperors and a teacher of prelates, Brun seemed
constantly to be pulled this way and that by the demands of his position.
Yet, as Ruotger tells us, this external behavior was only the visible
indication of Brun's deeper, "interior" purpose- the conversion and
correction of his flock. Brun's ambivalent position between what would
later be seen as opposed, "secular" and "sacred" worlds epitomized the
bishop of his time. In many ways, Ruotger's portrayal of Brun drew upon an
episcopal model reaching back to Gregory the Great's "Cura Pastoralis", one
in which the bishop was to act as rector, doctor, preacher, governor, and
priest. Nevertheless, this ideal image of the bishop was called into
question around the millennium by figures such as Rather of Verona, Atto of
Vercelli, and Abbo of Fleury - a challenge which foreshadowed the reform
movements of the later eleventh century.
Ruotger's ideal "image", of course, was not the only one current in the
post-Carolingian, pre-Gregorian period- a period in which bishops and
episcopal institutions (as Timothy Reuter has pointed out) were the most
homogeneous element in an increasingly regionalized Europe. This
conference, therefore, will address the varied images of the bishop created
around the turn of the millennium, c. 900- 1050. In particular, it is
meant to examine the changing function and significance of the bishop in
this period, as revealed by the various ways - political, historical,
theological, legal, ritual, artistic, or literary - in which bishops
represented themselves and were represented by those around them.
We invite papers (in English) of around twenty minutes in length from all
fields and disciplines, addressing the conference theme. Topics of
interest include, but are not limited to:
Episcopal Insignia --- Episcopal Memoria --- The Bishop & Conversion ---
The Bishop's Tomb
Bishops and the Law --- Hagiography & Hagiology --- Episcopal Liturgy ---
Bishops & Education --- The Bishop as Patron --- The Bishop's Family ---
The Bishop as Builder --- Bishop and Town --- Episcopal Communities --- The
Bishop as Ruler --- The Bishop as Artist
The deadline for submission is 1 March 1999. Address one-page abstracts,
together with curriculum vitae, to:
University of Chicago Medieval Studies Workshop
Conference Organizing Committee
1010 East 59th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
USA
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Fax: 773/702-9861
University of Chicago Medieval Studies Workshop
1010 East 59th Street
Chicago, IL 60637 USA
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/medieval
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