Universität Wien

070119 SE Seminar on History - The Parish (2024W)

religious, socio-economic and political aspects of local church administration

8.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 7 - Geschichte
Continuous assessment of course work
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Details

max. 25 participants
Language: German

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Tuesday 01.10. 14:15 - 15:45 Seminarraum Geschichte 2 Hauptgebäude, 2.Stock, Stiege 9
  • Tuesday 08.10. 14:15 - 15:45 Seminarraum Geschichte 2 Hauptgebäude, 2.Stock, Stiege 9
  • Tuesday 15.10. 14:15 - 15:45 Seminarraum Geschichte 2 Hauptgebäude, 2.Stock, Stiege 9
  • Tuesday 22.10. 14:15 - 15:45 Seminarraum Geschichte 2 Hauptgebäude, 2.Stock, Stiege 9
  • Tuesday 29.10. 14:15 - 15:45 Seminarraum Geschichte 2 Hauptgebäude, 2.Stock, Stiege 9
  • Tuesday 05.11. 14:15 - 15:45 Seminarraum Geschichte 2 Hauptgebäude, 2.Stock, Stiege 9
  • Tuesday 12.11. 14:15 - 15:45 Seminarraum Geschichte 2 Hauptgebäude, 2.Stock, Stiege 9
  • Tuesday 19.11. 14:15 - 15:45 Seminarraum Geschichte 2 Hauptgebäude, 2.Stock, Stiege 9
  • Tuesday 26.11. 14:15 - 15:45 Seminarraum Geschichte 2 Hauptgebäude, 2.Stock, Stiege 9
  • Tuesday 03.12. 14:15 - 15:45 Seminarraum Geschichte 2 Hauptgebäude, 2.Stock, Stiege 9
  • Tuesday 10.12. 14:15 - 15:45 Seminarraum Geschichte 2 Hauptgebäude, 2.Stock, Stiege 9
  • Tuesday 17.12. 14:15 - 15:45 Seminarraum Geschichte 2 Hauptgebäude, 2.Stock, Stiege 9
  • Tuesday 07.01. 14:15 - 15:45 Seminarraum Geschichte 2 Hauptgebäude, 2.Stock, Stiege 9
  • Tuesday 14.01. 14:15 - 15:45 Seminarraum Geschichte 2 Hauptgebäude, 2.Stock, Stiege 9
  • Tuesday 21.01. 14:15 - 15:45 Seminarraum Geschichte 2 Hauptgebäude, 2.Stock, Stiege 9
  • Tuesday 28.01. 14:15 - 15:45 Seminarraum Geschichte 2 Hauptgebäude, 2.Stock, Stiege 9

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

The Council of Trent (1545-1563) attempted to regulate the training and duties of parish priests in response to the decline of local pastoral care as a result of the Reformation, thereby strengthening their position. During the Counter-Reformation, on the other hand, parishes increasingly became the target of princely interventions, until finally, in the course of far-reaching reforms in the second half of the 18th century, parish priests became a kind of civil servant at local level.
The seminar will examine various causally and functionally related aspects of the parish system for the period from the 16th to the 19th century using selected case studies from the sources. These include, for example, pastoral care (administering the sacraments, sacraments, celebration of mass, catechism lessons), the counter-reformatory piety practices in the parish (and their abolition by Joseph II), the economic circumstances of the parish and of the parish priest as landlord, the economic situation of the parish community and the parish priest as landlord. the economic circumstances of the parish or the parish priest as landlord, the construction and administration of buildings (parish church, vicarage), ecclesiastical or sovereign administrative tasks (such as the keeping of registers), the parish as an organisational unit of social welfare, social conflicts in the parish association, the relationship of the parish to other local organisational units (manorial estates, village parish), etc.

Assessment and permitted materials

As part of the research seminar, students should develop a specific research topic with a scientific
with a scientific question and work on it independently. In doing so, they will practise critically evaluating historical sources on the basis of epistemological questions and contextualising them using specialist literature. The archival tradition of selected parish archives serves as a source basis; reading skills in Kurrent are desirable, but are not a prerequisite (although the willingness to acquire them during the seminar is).

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Minimum requirements and standard of assessment
Regular participation in the course blocks
Oral presentation
Active, well-read participation in the seminar
Written seminar paper
The grading refers to performances in the following weighting: active participation (20 percent), oral presentation (30 percent), written seminar paper (50 percent).

Examination topics

As part of the seminar, we will read and discuss texts together and in this way acquire the skills to deal with the topic. Intensive co-operation and willingness to discuss is required. Each participant must give a presentation and then elaborate on the chosen topic in a written paper.

Reading list

Rainer BECK, Der Pfarrer und das Dorf. Konformismus und Eigensinn im katholischen Bayern des 17./18. Jahrhunderts, in: Richard VAN DÜLMEN (Hg), Armut, Liebe, Ehre (Frankfurt/Main 1988) 107–143
Michele FERRARI, Beat KÜMIN (Hg.). Pfarreien in der Vormoderne: Identität und Kultur im Niederkirchenwesen Europas (Wiesbaden 2017)
Werner FREITAG (Hg.), Die Pfarre in der Stadt – Bürgerkirche – Urbanes Zentrum (Köln 2011)
Werner FREITAG, Pfarrer, Kirche und ländliche Gemeinde. Das Dekanat Vechta 1400–1803 (Bielefeld 1998).
Peter HERSCHE, Muße und Verschwendung. Europäische Gesellschaft und Kultur. 2 Bde. (Freiburg/Breisgau, Basel, Wien 2006).
Beat KÜMIN, The Shaping of a Community: The Rise & Reformation of the English Parish c. 1400-1560 (Aldershot 1996).
Beat KÜMIN, The Communal Age in Western Europe, c.1100-1800. Towns, Villages and Parishes in Pre-Modern Society (Basingstocke 2013).
Beat KÜMIN, Peter MARSHALL, Church and People at the Close of the Middle Ages, in: Beat KÜMIN (Hg.), The European world 1500–1800. An Introduction to Early Modern History (London, New York 2009) 85–148.
Rudolf LEEB, Maximilian LIEBMANN, Georg SCHEIBELREITER, Peter G. TROPPER, Geschichte des Christentums in Österreich (Wien 2003).
Arnd REITEMEIER, Pfarrkirchen in der Stadt des späten Mittelalters. Politik, Wirtschaft und Verwaltung (Stuttgart 2005).
Arnd REITEMEIER, Die Kirchhöfe der Pfarrkirchen in der Stadt des späten Mittelalters, in: Jan BRADEMANN, Werner FREITAG (Hg.), Leben bei den Toten: Kirchhöfe in der ländlichen Gesellschaft der Vormoderne (Münster 2007) 129–144.
Alois RUHRI, Die Pfarren als Fundament der Diözese, in: Michaela SOHN-KRONTHALER, Rudolf K. HÖFER, Alois RUHRI (Hg.) 800 Jahre Diözese Graz-Seckau. Von der Gründung bis zur Gegenwart (Graz 2018) 59–87.
Christine SCHNEIDER, Seelsorger, Mönche, Meßleser. Zur Situation des niederen Klerus im josephinischen Wien, in: Wiener Geschichtsblätter 48 (2013) 219–239.
Christine SCHNEIDER, Der niedere Klerus im josephinischen Wien zwischen staatlicher Funktion und seelsorgerischer Aufgabe (Wien 1999).
Christine TROPPER, Zu grosser ergernus mainer pfarrmenge. Überlegungen zu ländlichen Pfarren als Organisations-, Kommunikations- und Identifikationseinheiten in der Frühen Neuzeit, in: MIÖG 117 (2009) 312–333.

Association in the course directory

Schwerpunkte im MA Geschichte: Neuzeit, Österr. Geschichte, Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte
MA Geschichte (Version 2019): PM4 Individuelle Schwerpunktsetzung, SE Seminar (8 ECTS).
MEd UF GSP: UF MA GSP 01 Fachwissenschaft, Vertiefungsseminar 1: Quellenkunde und Quellenkritik (6 ECTS).

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