IMC 2011: Sessions
Session 111: Rich and Poor, Male and Female: The Economics of the Double Monastery
Monday 11 July 2011, 11.15-12.45
Organiser: | Katharine Sykes, St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford |
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Moderator/Chair: | Kimm Curran, History Lab+, Institute of Historical Research, University of London |
Paper 111-a | Double Monasteries and the Spiritual Economy of Anglo-Saxon England (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - General, Gender Studies, Monasticism, Religious Life |
Paper 111-b | 'In True Religion and in the Greatest Poverty': Asceticism, Rule, and Constitution in an Italian Double Monastery (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Gender Studies, Monasticism, Religious Life |
Paper 111-c | The Estate of a Double Monastery in Lincolnshire: What Did it Mean to Be Poor? (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Economics - General, Gender Studies, Monasticism |
Abstract | A major theme of medieval monastic history revolves around the classification of houses into two categories: male/rich and female/poor. This session uses evidence from double monasteries - religious communities that housed both male and female religious within the same economic, legal, and liturgical unit - to test the boundaries between these categories. The three papers explore both microeconomic themes (the finances and financial-planning of individual houses and congregations of houses), as well as macroeconomic themes (the place of double monasteries within the wider spiritual and temporal economies). |