IMC 2009: Sessions
Session 824: 'Vita vel Regula': Norm and Conflict in Hagiographic Texts, III - East and West
Tuesday 14 July 2009, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | Department of History, Syracuse University, New York / Lehrstuhl für Mittelalterliche Geschichte, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen-Nürnberg / Département d'Histoire, Université de Paris VIII - Vincennes-Saint-Denis |
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| Organiser: | Gordon Blennemann, Deutsches Historisches Institut, Paris / Mittelalterliche Geschichte und Historische Hilfswissenschaften, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg |
| Moderator/Chair: | Anne-Marie Helvétius, amhelvetius@univ-paris8.fr |
| Respondent: | Claudia Rapp, Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles |
| Paper 824-a | A Byzantine Stylite Founder Compelled to Subscribe to a Rule: Lazaros of Mount Galezion (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Hagiography, Monasticism |
| Paper 824-b | Memory, Identity, and Dissent in Monastic Communities: The Case of Central Italy, 11th-12th Centuries (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Historiography - Medieval, Monasticism |
| Abstract | The third session in the series 'Vita vel Regula' compares the processes of transformation form radical asceticism to a regularized monastic institution in the Frankish and the Byzantine world. Albrecht Diem talks about the hagiographic attempts to explain and legitimate the transition from collectively poor communities to rich and economically independent institutions. He identifies both a certain 'embarrassment of riches' and also several dissenting views on this transformation process in hagiographic text. Michel Kaplan describes on the basis of the stylite Lazaros of Mount Galezion the process of submitting individual radical asceticism to the discipline and rule of monastic communities. |