| Sponsor: | Erzbistum Paderborn / Fachstelle Franziskanische Forschung, Münster |
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| Organiser: | Arnold Otto, Erzbischöfliches Generalvikariat Erzbistumsarchiv, Paderborn |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Melanie Brunner, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds |
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| Paper 1012-a | How to Teach Poverty and Piety? Images in a Reformed Convent of Poor Clares
(Language: English)
Esther Meier, Institut für Kunst und Materielle Kultur, Technische Universität Dortmund |
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| Paper 1012-b | Starting up with Nothing?: A Franciscan Foundation at the Sunset of the Middle Ages
(Language: English)
Arnold Otto, Erzbischöfliches Generalvikariat Erzbistumsarchiv, Paderborn
Index terms: Archives and Sources, Charters and Diplomatics, Ecclesiastical History, Monasticism |
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| Abstract | Paper -a:
In nunneries images always played an important role in the cura monialium and monastic reform. We know that devotional pictures were instituted to lead the sisters to the requested pious life. But four images that will be on display at the major exhibition of Francis of Assisi in Paderborn remarkably differ from this use. They show negative examples of a Poor Clares’ behavior. With this they are exceptional examples of a vigorous admonition and unique didactic illustrations that were applied to teach nuns of a reformed cloister the principles of poverty and piety.
Paper -b:
The Franciscan Monastery of Bielefeld was founded at the dusk of the middle ages and its fifth centenary in 2011 also marks the foundation date of the Bielefeld city parish. On this occasion the charter collection of convent and parish will be newly restored and thereby become accessible to the scholarly public. Taking benefit from the collection, this paper seeks to illustrate how a Franciscan monastery was erected and managed to maintain itself in an environment which became rather hostile only years after its foundation, focussing on the earliest years and giving an example of Franciscan change management at the end of the Middle Ages.
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