IMC 2010: Sessions
Session 123: Nuns on the Run, I
Monday 12 July 2010, 11.15-12.45
Sponsor: | Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship |
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Organiser: | Liz Herbert McAvoy, Department of English Language & Literature, Swansea University |
Moderator/Chair: | Julie Ann Smith, Department of History, University of Sydney |
Paper 123-a | A Nun on the Run: Apostasy, Excommunication, and Enclosure in the Order of Sempringham (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Hagiography, Religious Life, Women's Studies |
Paper 123-b | A Nun on the Run: Flight and Foundation in the Altarpiece of the Blessed Humility (1330s) (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Painting, Hagiography, Religious Life, Women's Studies |
Paper 123-c | Eugenia, A 'Monk' in Transit(ion): Liberation from Gender and Enclosure in Flesh (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Hagiography, Religious Life, Women's Studies |
Abstract | These two linked sessions examine the variety of ways in which nuns or other holy women resisted the stability of place and identity which they were supposed to embrace. As such, it investigates how travel or other types of movement/transition are implicated in the forging of a female spiritual identity and the effects that regulation against such movement brought to bear upon such identity |