IMC 2010: Sessions
Session 503: Medieval Commemoration, I: Narrative Sources and Memorial Registers
Tuesday 13 July 2010, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | Centre for Medieval Studies, Universiteit Utrecht |
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| Organiser: | Truus van Bueren, Medieval Memoria Online Project |
| Moderator/Chair: | Dick E. H. de Boer, Instituut voor Geschiedenis, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen |
| Paper 503-a | A Founder Fallen into Oblivion?: Geert Grote and his Faltering Remembrance within the Devotio Moderna (Language: English) Index terms: Archives and Sources, Historiography - Medieval, Religious Life, Theology |
| Paper 503-b | Bread and Meals for the Poor: The Pittance Books of the Hospital of the Holy Spirit in Deventer (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Archives and Sources, Historiography - Medieval, Religious Life |
| Paper 503-c | The Oldest 'necrology-anniversary' from Thorn Abbey: Revised in the Early 16th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Archives and Sources, Historiography - Medieval, Religious Life |
| Abstract | What can different types of written sources tell us about medieval memorial culture? The first lecture addresses two types of sources, one historiographical and the other necrological, in order to analyse how Geert Grote of Deventer, the 'founder' of the Devotio Moderna, was remembered. The second speaker will answer some questions concerning the use and function of pittance books. The development of the foundation of meals and bread distributions for the poor will be reconstructed, using the research of a 16th-century provisor and his medieval sources. The memorial practices of an abbey in Thorn are the point of departure for the third paper. |