IMC 2005: Sessions
Session 216: Entering the Monastery, I: The Early Middle Ages
Monday 11 July 2005, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Universiteit Utrecht / University of Toronto |
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| Organiser: | Albrecht Diem, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien |
| Moderator/Chair: | Isabelle Cochelin, Department of History & Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto |
| Respondent: | Mayke de Jong, Instituut Geschiedenis, Universiteit Utrecht |
| Paper 216-a | A Noble Community: Who Entered a Columbanian Monastery? (Language: English) Index terms: Education, Hagiography, Lay Piety, Monasticism |
| Paper 216-b | What Do Hagiographical Sources Tell Us about the Monastic Education of Young Frankish Aristocrats? (Language: English) Index terms: Education, Hagiography, Monasticism |
| Abstract | One of the most persistent challenges of monastic communities is the problem of recruitment. Without permanent recruitment of new members, every communities would die out within a few decades. The study of the repartition between, and evolution of the different ways of entering a monastic community (child oblation, adult conversion, entrance ad succurrendum, division between lay monks/priest monks or between nobles/non-nobles, etc.) gives fruitful access both to the main theme of this conference ("Youth and Age") and to the development of medieval monasticism on a theological/organizational level as well as its integration in political and social structures. |