IMC 2011: Sessions

Session 530: Monastic Wales: Social Contexts

Sponsor:	Monastic Wales Project
Organiser:	Karen Stöber, Departament d'Història, Universitat de Lleida
Moderator/Chair:	Janet Burton, School of Archaeology, History & Anthropology, University of Wales Trinity Saint David
Paper 530-a	Scholar-Monks in the Western Church: Monastic Wales and the Universities (Language: English) Rhun Emlyn, Department of History & Welsh History, Aberystwyth University Index terms: Education, Monasticism, Religious Life
Paper 530-b	Endowment of Monastic Houses by Non-Lordly Freemen: Evidence from Strata Marcella (Language: English) David Stephenson, School of History & Welsh History, Bangor University Index terms: Monasticism, Religious Life, Social History
Paper 530-c	Monasteries in Border Society (Language: English) Paul Anthony Watkins, School of Archaeology, History & Anthropology, University of Wales Trinity Saint David Index terms: Monasticism, Religious Life
Abstract	The three papers which comprise this session will discuss a range of ways in which the religious communities of medieval Wales interacted with the world outside the cloister walls. The first paper will examine the relationship between the orders in Wales and the universities, exploring how universities influenced the careers of these men; the second paper uses the case study of the abbey of Strata Marcella to investigate issues of religious patronage and politics; and the third paper investigates the role of religious communities in a frontier society, in this case medieval Wales.