IMC 2003: Sessions
Session 1001: Evidence for Anglo-Saxon Networks: Bishops, Monks and Nuns in Context
Wednesday 16 July 2003, 09.00-10.30
Sponsor: | Department of History, University of York |
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Organiser: | Emma J. Pettit, Department of History, University of York |
Moderator/Chair: | Julia Steuart Barrow, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds |
Paper 1001-a | Aldhelm's Ecclesiastical Network: A Context for the opus geminatum De virginitate? (Language: English) Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Ecclesiastical History, Monasticism, Religious Life |
Paper 1001-b | The Letters of Archbishop Lull of Mainz: Connections and Context (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Religious Life |
Paper 1001-c | Lay Bequest in the Ramsey Chronicle: Evidence for a Late Anglo-Saxon Network? (Language: English) Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Lay Piety, Social History |
Abstract | Social interaction bewteen ecclesiastics was one of the dynamic forces that shaped the medieval church. This session will use letters, charters and chronicles to identify and characterise a number of those Anglo-Saxon bishops, monks and nuns involved in contemporary religious networks. A variety of 7th-11th-century networks will be considered and their economic, social, political and intellectual frameworks reconstructed. These networks will be the focus of a range of questions: what was their function and character; how were they cultivated; and to what extent did they provide the context in which the activities of contemporary religions were embedded? |