IMC 2005: Sessions
Session 516: Entering the Monastery, II: the Central Middle Ages
Tuesday 12 July 2005, 09.00-10.30
Sponsor: | University of Toronto / Universiteit Utrecht |
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Organiser: | Isabelle Cochelin, Department of History & Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto |
Moderator/Chair: | Gwendolyn Rice, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto, Downtown |
Paper 516-a | There's No Escape: Moral Tales for Tiny Tots who Don't Want to Become Monks (Language: English) Index terms: Monasticism, Religious Life |
Paper 516-b | Ideal Paths: Monastic Customaries and Recruitment (9th-12th Centuries) (Language: English) Index terms: Monasticism, Religious Life |
Paper 516-c | Donating Oneself, Donating Others: Monastic Recruitment in Provence (10th-12th Centuries) (Language: English) Index terms: Monasticism, Religious Life |
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. |