IMC 2008: Sessions
Session 624: Anchoritic Spirituality and Monastic Orders
Tuesday 8 July 2008, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | International Anchoritic Society |
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| Organiser: | Susannah Chewning, Department of English, Union County College, New Jersey |
| Moderator/Chair: | Johan Bergström-Allen, Carmelite Institute of Britain & Ireland, York / Université de Lausanne |
| Paper 624-a | Doomed and Successful Attempts in Institutionalizing an Anarchic Form of Religious Way of Life: Case of Pisa (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Monasticism, Social History |
| Paper 624-b | Saints and Anchorites: Intersections of Monasticism and Anchoritic Spirituality (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Hagiography, Language and Literature - Comparative, Monasticism |
| Paper 624-c | 'The mountains our brother conventuals': Nature, the City, and the Eremitical Life in Nicholas Gallicus' Ignea sagitta (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Monasticism, Social History |
| Abstract | This session will address connections between anchoritic figures and their monastic predecessors, as well as the monastic inheritance of the anchoritic life, including examples of both monastic and anchoritic figures and texts from various backgrounds and traditions. |