IMC 2010: Sessions

Session 223: Nuns on the Run, II

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 223-a	'The destruction of war...and the evil of the times': Nuns, Flight, and Shelter in Late Medieval Bologna (Language: English) Sherri Johnson, Department of Religious Studies, University of California, Riverside Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Gender Studies, Monasticism, Women's Studies
Paper 223-b	Running the Good Race: Mary of Blois as a 'Nun on the Run' (Language: English) Linda Dorothy Brown, University of Missouri, Kansas City Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Gender Studies, Monasticism, Women's Studies
Paper 223-c	The Accidental Pilgrim?: Adventure and Purgatory in the Old French Life of St Mary of Egypt (Language: English) Eilidh MacDonald, University of Glasgow Index terms: Hagiography, Language and Literature - French or Occitan, Lay Piety
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.