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IMC 2010: Sessions

Session 123: Nuns on the Run, I

Monday 12 July 2010, 11.15-12.45

Sponsor:Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship
Organiser:Liz Herbert McAvoy, Department of English Language & Literature, Swansea University
Moderator/Chair:Julie Ann Smith, Department of History, University of Sydney
Paper 123-aA Nun on the Run: Apostasy, Excommunication, and Enclosure in the Order of Sempringham
(Language: English)
Katharine Sykes, St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford
Index terms: Gender Studies, Hagiography, Religious Life, Women's Studies
Paper 123-bA Nun on the Run: Flight and Foundation in the Altarpiece of the Blessed Humility (1330s)
(Language: English)
Anne Kirkham, Department of Art History & Visual Studies, University of Manchester
Index terms: Art History - Painting, Hagiography, Religious Life, Women's Studies
Paper 123-cEugenia, A 'Monk' in Transit(ion): Liberation from Gender and Enclosure in Flesh
(Language: English)
Jed Chandler, Department of English, Swansea University
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