Institute for Medieval Studies

Session	230
Title	Lay Teaching in the Late Middle Ages: Breaking Intellectual and Spiritual Boundaries, I
Date/Time	Monday 4 July 2022: 14.15-15.45
Sponsor	International Society for the Study of Medieval Theology (IGTM)
Organiser	Krijn Pansters, School of Catholic Theology / Franciscan Study Centre, Tilburg University
Moderator/Chair	Ingo Klitzsch, Evangelisch-Theologische Fakultät, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
Paper 230-a	Being the Teaching: Living Spirituality Lessons from the Franciscan Secular Tradition (Language: English) Krijn Pansters, School of Catholic Theology / Franciscan Study Centre, Tilburg University Index Terms: Lay Piety; Religious Life; Theology
Paper 230-b	The Teaching Body: Corporeal Performance as Example in High and Late Medieval Lay Culture (Language: English) Volker Leppin, Yale Divinity School, Yale University Index Terms: Lay Piety; Religious Life; Theology
Paper 230-c	'Speaking like Brugman': Lay Teachers Speaking like Brugman (Language: English) Jan C. Klok, Theology Department, Theological University Kampen Index Terms: Lay Piety; Religious Life; Theology
Abstract	Most medieval teachers were learned theologians with a substantial degree of training in didactic technique and sacred eloquence. They were usually members of ecclesiastical and/or spiritual elites with the right papers for preaching and pastoral activity. From roughly the 12th century, more and more laypeople started to become teachers themselves, either by edifying verbo et exemplo and becoming spiritual exemplars themselves, or by way of a religious pedagogy that included new forms of expression and exhortation, simplified speech, use of the vernacular, images, and gestures, and poetry. The first kind of non-clerical teachers will be the subject of this session.