IMC 2014: Sessions
Session 1116: Monastic Writing and Education
Wednesday 9 July 2014, 11.15-12.45
Moderator/Chair: | Eva Schlotheuber, Institut für Geschichtswissenschaften, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf |
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Paper 1116-a | Skipping a Grade?: English Black Monks and the Arts Course, c. 1300-1500 (Language: English) Index terms: Education, Monasticism, Religious Life |
Paper 1116-b | Friendship, Theological Authority, and Female Vocation (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Monasticism, Religious Life, Theology |
Paper 1116-c | How a Chronicler Ludolf of Żagań Tried to Protect His Monastery: A Few Remarks about Excommunicatio and Absolutio Post Mortem in Silesia (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Historiography - Medieval, Mentalities |
Abstract | Paper -a: Paper -b: This paper will examine how St Bernard and St Anselm included women in their friendship networks, in order to assert their authority in a theologically related topic which closely aligned with their view, in regards to an acceptable religious vocation for a female. Both Bernard and Anselm selectively included women within their friendship networks: The letters they sent offer an insight into the views of the authors in regards to a wide range of subjects; however, a commonality of the two authors in regards to their literary friendship exchanges with women was the comparisons they drew between the female recipient and the Virgin Mary. This paper has stemmed from my PhD thesis which examines the inclusion of women in the male dominated religious friendship networks of the 12th century. Paper -c: |