Disruptions of Sacred Space in Late Medieval England and its European Contexts

Información del proyecto

SACREDSPACE

Identificador del acuerdo de subvención: 101026176

DOI

10.3030/101026176

Proyecto cerrado

Fecha de la firma de la CE 20 Abril 2021

Fecha de inicio 1 Septiembre 2021

Fecha de finalización 31 Agosto 2023

Financiado con arreglo a

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Coste total

€ 224 933,76

Aportación de la UE

€ 224 933,76

Coordinado por

THE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
United Kingdom

Descripción del proyecto

Espacios sagrados y transformación social en la Inglaterra medieval

Entre 1250 y 1450, Inglaterra y Europa conocieron un período transformador que empezó tras el IV Concilio de Letrán y la adopción por parte de la Iglesia de un programa pastoral sólido. Esto acabó con la caída de la autoridad espiritual después de las transformaciones sociales y los desastres del siglo XIV. El proyecto SACREDSPACE, financiado con fondos europeos, se basa en la idea de que los espacios sagrados medievales, como las iglesias, capillas, ermitas y procesiones, funcionaban como espacios de culto y de debate político. El proyecto integrará diversas fuentes de investigación procedentes de bibliotecas y archivos de Inglaterra para estudiar cómo la clase, el estatus social y el género influyeron en actos que refutaron las jerarquías sociales y cómo se legitimaron los poderes políticos a través de los espacios sagrados.

Objetivo

This project challenges our understanding of medieval sacred spaces––churches, chapels, shrines, and processions between them––by arguing that they functioned not only as spaces of worship but as arenas of political conflict in England and Europe between ca. 1250 and 1450. This transformational period follows the fourth Lateran council and the Church’s inauguration of a powerful pastoral programme that sought to control and foster lay participation in the church, and ends with the decline of spiritual authority following the social transformations and calamities of the fourteenth century. I argue that the ritual symbols and practices that defined sacred spaces were harnessed in tactical and opportunistic acts that challenged the social hierarchies and power relations that sacred spaces reflected and legitimised. By considering sacred spaces as deeply intertwined with structures of power and authority, this project will transform scholarship that has thus far largely focused on ‘secular’ areas as the main sites of social conflict. I will integrate a wide variety of sources to examine how class, social status, and gender shaped acts of disruption that contested the social hierarchies and power relations that were expressed and legitimised through sacred spaces, thus refuting the projection of strict modern boundaries between sacred and profane onto the medieval past that is implicit in modern historiography.

During the fellowship, I will undertake archival and library research in England, building up a database of cases that I will draw on to produce a chapter for a volume I am co-editing and two long articles. I will also begin working on a monograph on during the fellowship that considers cases from a wider European context.

The project will demonstrate the wider resonance of religious culture and liturgy in political history, and, for a broader academic readership, the political potential of public space, long imbued with the habits of ritual Christianity.

Ámbito científico (EuroSciVoc)

• humanidades › historia y arqueología › historia › historia medieval
• humanidades › filosofía, ética y religión › religión › cristianismo

Palabras clave

• Sacred Space
• Late Medieval England
• Medieval Europe
• Church History
• Lay Resistance
• Gender

Programa(s)

• H2020-EU.1.3. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions PROGRAMA PRINCIPAL
  
• H2020-EU.1.3.2. - Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility
  

Tema(s)

• MSCA-IF-2020 - Individual Fellowships
  

Régimen de financiación

MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF)

Convocatoria de propuestas

H2020-MSCA-IF-2020

Coordinador

THE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE

• Aportación neta de la UEn: € 224 933,76
• Dirección: TRINITY LANE THE OLD SCHOOLS ; CB2 1TN CAMBRIDGE ; Reino Unido
• Región: East of England › East Anglia › Cambridgeshire CC
• Tipo de actividad: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Coste total: € 224 933,76