Skip to main content

IMC 2010: Sessions

Session 623: Monks and Travel in the Late Middle Ages, II: Paradox of stabilitas

Tuesday 13 July 2010, 11.15-12.45

Organiser:Emilia Jamroziak, Forschungsstelle für Vergleichende Ordensgeschichte (FOVOG), Technische Universität Dresden / Institute for Medieval Studies / School of History, University of Leeds
Moderator/Chair:Emilia Jamroziak, Forschungsstelle für Vergleichende Ordensgeschichte (FOVOG), Technische Universität Dresden / Institute for Medieval Studies / School of History, University of Leeds
Paper 623-aAugustinian Canons: Out and about on Community Business
(Language: English)
Judith Frost, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York
Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Monasticism
Paper 623-bMonks, Canons, and Mobility in Medieval Catalonia
(Language: English)
Karen Stöber, Department of History & Welsh History, Aberystwyth University
Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Monasticism
Paper 623-cMedieval Mortuary Rolls: A Case of Contact Without Travel
(Language: English)
Lynda Rollason, Department of History, Durham University
Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Monasticism
Abstract

This is a second 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 centuries (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.