IMC 2010: Sessions

Session 724: Exemplarity and Gender, II: Mendicant Experiences in the 13th Century

Sponsor:	ANZAMEMS (Australian & NZ Association for Medieval & Early Modern Studies)
Organiser:	Constant J. Mews, Centre for Studies in Religion & Theology, Monash University, Victoria
Moderator/Chair:	Tomas Zahora, Department of History, Monash University, Victoria
Paper 724-a	Modelling a Gospel Life for Women: The Creation of a Rule for the Poor Clares (Language: English) Julie Ann Smith, Department of History, University of Sydney Index terms: Gender Studies, Monasticism, Religious Life
Paper 724-b	'Simple as doves or prudent as serpents?': Sermons, exempla, and the Early Dominican Order (Language: English) Anne Holloway, Department of History, Monash University, Victoria Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Latin, Religious Life, Sermons and Preaching
Paper 724-c	Charity Inflamed, Desire Enfleshed: The Vernacular Sacramentality of Catherine of Siena (Language: English) Ben Kautzer, Durham University Index terms: Gender Studies, Lay Piety, Liturgy, Theology
Abstract	This session explores the way categories of gender shape the literature of religious instruction and guidance in the 13th century, within both Franciscan and Dominican contexts. It asks whether mendicant religious writing in 13th century, whether homilies or religious rules, offered an opportunity for traditional assumptions about gender to be questioned, whether in writing addressed specifically to women or to men and women equally.