IMC 2012: Sessions
Session 111: Regulating Monastic Life, I: Rules and Monastic Practice in the Early Middle Ages
Monday 9 July 2012, 11.15-12.45
Sponsor: | Network for the Study of Late Antique & Early Medieval Monasticism |
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Organiser: | Albrecht Diem, Department of History, Syracuse University, New York |
Moderator/Chair: | Julian Hendrix, Department of Classics & History, Carthage College, Wisconsin |
Paper 111-a | Why Did Augustine of Hippo Write His Monastic Rule? (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Monasticism |
Paper 111-b | Le rituel de la profession monastique dans le monde byzantine (Language: Français) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Monasticism |
Paper 111-c | Lives and Rules of Theodore the Stoudite: Reflections of the Same Image? (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Monasticism |
Abstract | This session discusses the practical impact of monastic rules on the life and discipline of monastic communities. Daniel Oltean analyses the interplay of monastic entry, spirituality and the ritual of tonsure as in monastic normative texts. Mattheus Finguinha describes the specific circumstances in which Augustine' Rules were written and reads their production as reaction in crisis situations within Augustine's monastic communities but also as a reaction on the Donatist controversy. Ekaterini Mitsiou compares the representation of monastic ideals in hagiographic and normative texts on the basis of the Lives and Rules of the Byzantine monk Theodore the Stoudite (d. 826). |