IMC 2010: Sessions

Session 521: Monks on the Move: Religious Travelling in and from Medieval Scandinavia

Tuesday 13 July 2010, 09.00-10.30

Sponsor:	Centre for Dominican Studies of Dacia / Nordic Centre for Medieval Studies
Organiser:	Johnny Grandjean Jakobsen, Nordisk Forskningsinstitut, Københavns Universitet
Moderator/Chair:	Bertil Nilsson, Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religion, Göteborgs Universitet
Paper 521-a	Scandinavian Hospitallers as Travellers in Medieval Europe (Language: English) Christer Carlsson, Institut for Historie, Kultur og Samfundsbeskrivelse, Syddansk Universitet, Odense Index terms: Crusades, Monasticism, Religious Life, Teaching the Middle Ages
Paper 521-b	Scandinavian Dominicans at the Core of Europe (Language: English) Johannes Schütz, Graduiertenkolleg 'Expertenkulturen des 12. bis 16. Jahrhunderts', Georg-August-Universität Göttingen Index terms: Monasticism, Religious Life, Teaching the Middle Ages, Theology
Paper 521-c	'Them Friars dash about': Mendicant terminatione in Medieval Scandinavia (Language: English) Johnny Grandjean Jakobsen, Nordisk Forskningsinstitut, Københavns Universitet Index terms: Monasticism, Religious Life, Sermons and Preaching, Teaching the Middle Ages
Abstract	The session aims to look at the importance of those within the regular clergy, who did not follow the ideal of stabilitas loci, but instead through travelling maintained contact between their home convent and the surrounding world in various ways. The selected papers will show how Hospitallers of St John connected Scandinavia to the Mediterranean, how Dominican university students helped transmit cultural ideas to the North, and how an important part of Mendicant life was to travel around the countryside as itinerant preachers. Together, the papers should bring us well around different types of monastic mobility and their possible influences on medieval Scandinavian society.