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IMC 2010: Sessions

Session 523: Monks and Travel in the Late Middle Ages, I: What Happened to stabilitas

Tuesday 13 July 2010, 09.00-10.30

Organiser:Emilia Jamroziak, Forschungsstelle für Vergleichende Ordensgeschichte (FOVOG), Technische Universität Dresden / Institute for Medieval Studies / School of History, University of Leeds
Moderator/Chair:Alex Bamji, School of History, University of Leeds
Paper 523-aTravel and the Late Medieval Monastic Superior
(Language: English)
Martin Heale, Department of History, University of Liverpool
Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Monasticism
Paper 523-b'For the salvation and defence of the church and realm': Military Arrays of the English Clergy during the Hundred Years War
(Language: English)
Graham E. St John, Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge
Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Military History, Monasticism
Paper 523-cNuns on the Run: Conflicts with stabilitas in Britain and Ireland during the Later Middle Ages
(Language: English)
Kimm Curran, History Lab+, Institute of Historical Research, University of London
Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Monasticism, Women's Studies
Abstract

This is a first of two sessions focusing on the various aspects of travel by monks in high and late Middle Ages from the 13th to the early 16th century (not mendicants, but all strands of Benedictine traditions, Cistercians and canons). In many ways, the concept of stabilitas is contradictory to the movement of the monks, yet there were many reasons for monks, nuns, and monastic officials (especially abbots) to travel. The sessions explore various exemplifications of this phenomenon and address the apparent paradox.