IMC 2012: Sessions
Session 117: Legislation, Custom, or Muddling Through?: Making the Rules Work inside English Monasteries
Monday 9 July 2012, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Reading |
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| Organiser: | Catherine E. Léglu, Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Reading |
| Moderator/Chair: | Anne Lawrence-Mathers, Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Reading |
| Paper 117-a | Time and Punishment: The Implementation of the Monastic Horarium in Anglo-Saxon England (Language: English) Index terms: Learning (The Classical Inheritance), Monasticism, Technology |
| Paper 117-b | The 'Outside' Within: The Lay Sick and the Regulation of Sacred Space (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Medicine, Monasticism |
| Paper 117-c | Lectio Divina and Suspect Texts: The Monastic Library as Frontier Zone (Language: English) Index terms: Learning (The Classical Inheritance), Manuscripts and Palaeography, Monasticism |
| Abstract | Monastic reformers, with the Cistercians prominent amongst them, placed emphasis on getting 'back to the Rule'. This session looks at three areas where implementing the Rule could be especially difficult in practice, even though all three were central to Benedictine life. The first is the monastic horarium in the 11th century, the complexity of the chronological calculations, and the punishments for erring timekeepers. The second is the acceptance of the lay sick, male and female, within areas of monastic space supposedly closed to them. The final paper looks at the lectio divina, and at how texts on problematic subjects such as astrology appeared in monastic manuscripts. |