IMC 2005: Sessions
Session 616: Entering the Monastery, III: Female Communities in the High and Late Middle Ages
Tuesday 12 July 2005, 11.15-12.45
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: | Isabelle Cochelin, Department of History & Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto |
Paper 616-a | Female Entrance into the Religious Life at Monasteries of the Hirsau Reform (Language: English) Index terms: Monasticism, Religious Life, Social History |
Paper 616-b | Experienced Women: Social Background, Cultural Formation, and Spiritual Knowledge of the Nuns of 12th-Century Admont (Language: English) Index terms: Archives and Sources, Gender Studies, Monasticism |
Paper 616-c | Entering the Monastery and rite de passage: The Significance of Virginity for the Identity of the Nuns (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, 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. |