IMC 2012: Sessions
Session 732: Vita vel Regula: Norm and Conflict in Hagiographic Texts, II - Byzantine World
Tuesday 10 July 2012, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Laboratoire Orient-Méditerranée, Universités de Paris I & IV / École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris / Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris |
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| Organiser: | Albrecht Diem, Department of History, Syracuse University, New York |
| Moderator/Chair: | Anne-Marie Helvétius, amhelvetius@univ-paris8.fr |
| Paper 732-a | The Life of Sabas: The Birth and Spread of Rules for Monks in the 6th-Century Judean Desert (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Hagiography, Monasticism |
| Paper 732-b | Hagiography as a Rule: The Use of Saints' Lives in Byzantine Monasticism (8th-12th Centuries) (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Hagiography, Monasticism |
| Paper 732-c | Foundation Charter Rather than Life of the Founder: Ruling Byzantine Monasteries (11th-13th Centuries) (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Hagiography, Monasticism |
| Abstract | These two sessions form a new contribution to our program Vita vel Regula which aims to consider hagiographic texts as media to express norms or rules, and to depict and resolve conflicts within monastic communities or between a community and the outside world. One specific aim is to compare the monastic worlds of different regions and periods. These sessions compare the models of sanctity offered by early medieval hagiographic texts written in the Frankish (I) and the Byzantine world (II), in order to explore how hagiography contributes to the processes of transformation from radical asceticism to a regularized monastic institution. The discussion aims to point out similarities and dissimilarities between western and eastern monasticism in this respect. |