IMC 2012: Sessions
Session 517: 'Forms of Life': Rules and Other Normative Texts in Late Medieval Female Religious Communities, 1200-1500, I
Tuesday 10 July 2012, 09.00-10.30
Sponsor: | Research Project 'Religious Orders & Religious Identity Formation', Radboud University Nijmegen |
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Organiser: | Bert Roest, Afdeling Geschiedenis, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen |
Moderator/Chair: | Bert Roest, Afdeling Geschiedenis, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen |
Paper 517-a | Regularizing the Irregular: Imposing Rules on Tertiaries (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Religious Life, Women's Studies |
Paper 517-b | Regula et Gubernatio: Governance in the Clarissan forma vitae (1212-63) (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Religious Life, Women's Studies |
Paper 517-c | Regulating Beguine Life in the Late Medieval Low Countries (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Religious Life, Women's Studies |
Abstract | This session sheds light on the way in which 'forms of life', religious rules, house constitutions and other normative texts (such as exemplary hagiographic dossiers) were used to shape the life of a large variety of late medieval female religious communities, both those considered to be fully monastic (such as Damianite/Poor Clare and female Dominican houses) and those that had a much more indeterminate status, such as communities of female beguines and 'Franciscan' and non-Franciscan tertiaries. Participants are asked to approach this issue from four different angles, namely: authority; content (the way of life is proposed in these normative texts); Sitz im Leben; diachrony. |