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IMC 2011: Sessions

Session 1009: Spaces, Places, and Monastic Landscapes

Wednesday 13 July 2011, 09.00-10.30

Organiser:Judith Frost, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York
Moderator/Chair:Emilia Jamroziak, Forschungsstelle für Vergleichende Ordensgeschichte (FOVOG), Technische Universität Dresden / Institute for Medieval Studies / School of History, University of Leeds
Paper 1009-aThe Spaces and Places of Female Religious in Britain and Ireland
(Language: English)
Kimm Curran, History Lab+, Institute of Historical Research, University of London
Index terms: Archaeology - General, Architecture - Religious, Monasticism, Religious Life
Paper 1009-bWhere Did We Go Wrong?: Religious Houses on the Edge of Conflict
(Language: English)
Judith Frost, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York
Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Economics - General, Monasticism, Religious Life
Paper 1009-cUnion and Dissolution: The Monastic Parish Church
(Language: English)
Anthony Masinton, Department of Archaeology, University of York
Index terms: Archaeology - General, Architecture - Religious, Lay Piety, Monasticism
Abstract

This session will look at how monastic space, place, and landscape were inter-connecting influences on the lives of religious and secular communities. The papers will consider interpretations and use of monastic spaces as: a separate space impacting the secular community, a place under siege by secular disruption and a space shared by both religious and secular communities. The social, material, and economic impacts of monastic space and place had both short-term and long-term consequences for the monastic and secular landscapes.