IMC 2005: Sessions
Session 519: Religious Practices in Late Medieval Prayer Books
Tuesday 12 July 2005, 09.00-10.30
Sponsor: | The Medieval Circle, Københavns Universitet |
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Organiser: | Michael H. Gelting, Centre for Scandinavian Studies King's College University of Aberdeen 24 High Street OLD ABERDEEN AB24 3EB |
Moderator/Chair: | Bertil Nilsson, Department of Religious Studies, Theology & Classical Philology, Göteborgs Universitet |
Paper 519-a | Reforming the Soul: Reading Female Monastic Devotion through Late Medieval Prayer Books (Language: English) Index terms: Monasticism, Religious Life |
Paper 519-c | The Conception of Sin in Late Medieval Danish Prayer Books (Language: English) Index terms: Lay Piety, Monasticism, Religious Life |
Abstract | Prayer books are among the most important sources for ordinary religious practice at the end of the Middle Ages. The session brings together three studies of prayer books from Lower Saxony and Denmark. The focus of the papers is on daily devotional practices and individual religiosity, asking questions about the effects of monastic reform, about differences between the devotion of lay and religious women, about the impact of gender on religious practice, and about the inconsistencies of the classification of sins that is found in the prayer books. |