IMC 2008: Sessions

Session 724: The Regular Canons in the British Isles, I: Social Contexts

Tuesday 8 July 2008, 14.15-15.45

Sponsor:	Gregynog Medieval Monastic Studies, University of Wales
Organisers:	Janet Burton, Department of History, University of Wales, Lampeter Karen Stöber, Department of History & Welsh History, Aberystwyth University
Moderator/Chair:	Janet Burton, Department of History, University of Wales, Lampeter
Paper 724-a	Corrodies at Houses of Regular Canons in England c. 1485 - 1539 (Language: English) Allison Fizzard, Department of History, Campion College, University of Regina, Saskatchewan Index terms: Lay Piety, Monasticism
Paper 724-b	The Standing Fabric and the Rockeries: Reconstructing Thurgarton Priory Church (Language: English) Jenny Alexander, Department of the History of Art, University of Warwick Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Art History - General, Monasticism
Paper 724-c	The Regular Canons in Wales: The Priories of Beddgelert and Penmon (Language: English) Karen Stöber, Department of History & Welsh History, Aberystwyth University Index terms: Lay Piety, Monasticism
Abstract	The regular canons remain one of the least studied religious groups in medieval Britain, yet in their various guises - Augustinian, Premonstratensian, Gilbertine etc. - they constituted the most numerous. This session - and its companion session (The Regular Canons in the British Isles, II) presents recent research on a range of aspects relating to the regular canons in Britain. The first paper assesses the contact formed between houses of canons and the lay community through corrodies; the second paper takes an art-historical and archaeological look at one Augustinian priory; and the third paper discusses two houses of regular canons in Wales in their social context.