IMC 2005: Sessions
Session 716: Young Nuns (and Monks) Go for It: Entry and Adaptation to the Monastic Life in the Later Middle Ages
Tuesday 12 July 2005, 14.15-15.45
Sponsor: | University of Huddersfield |
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Organiser: | Patricia Cullum, Department of History, University of Huddersfield |
Moderator/Chair: | Joanna Huntington, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York |
Paper 716-a | 'The Age of Innocence': Chastity and the chanson de nonne in Late Medieval France (Language: English) Index terms: Monasticism, Music, Sexuality, Women's Studies |
Paper 716-c | Becoming Monkly: Secular Acolytes and Entry to the Monastic Life in Later 14th-Century England (Language: English) Index terms: Monasticism, Religious Life |
Abstract | The session explores the choices, problems and experiences of young nuns and monks entering and adapting to the monastic life in the later medieval and early Reformation periods, in England and France. The papers will use musical and documentary sources to explore issues such as voluntarism, resistance and sexuality. |