IMC 2014: Sessions

Session 230: Negotiating Monastic Space, II: Monasteries and Material Culture

Monday 7 July 2014, 14.15-15.45

Sponsor:	The Journal of Medieval Monastic Studies (JMMS)
Organiser:	Janet Burton, School of Archaeology, History & Anthropology, University of Wales Trinity Saint David
Moderator/Chair:	Karen Stöber, Departament d'Història, Universitat de Lleida
Paper 230-a	Frames and Thresholds: Franciscan Friaries in Ireland and the Imagery of Transition Spaces (Language: English) Małgorzata Krasnodębska-D'Aughton, School of History, University College Cork Index terms: Art History - General, Ecclesiastical History, Monasticism, Religious Life
Paper 230-b	Mendicant Houses and the Medieval Urban Landscape in Portugal, 12th-15th Centuries (Language: English) Catarina Almeida Marado, Centro de Estudos Socias, University of Coimbra Index terms: Architecture - Religious, Monasticism
Paper 230-c	Politics, Practicality, and Patronage: Secular Benefaction and Protection of Mendicant Houses in Ireland (Language: English) Keith Smith, Monastic Ireland Project, Department of the History of Art & Architecture, Trinity College Dublin Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Lay Piety, Monasticism, Religious Life
Abstract	This session looks at some of the key aspects of monastic material culture and the contribution of religious communities to medieval Europe's artistic heritage. The first paper looks at imagery from Irish Franciscan friaries in a context of Franciscan preaching and devotional life as well as the use of space. Paper 2 uses the example of the Cistercian abbey of Maulbronn to address wider questions of the uses of space and self-representation; and the third paper considers patrons who supported the religious orders and their houses and whose power and prestige was reflected in the prosperity of the religious foundations under their care and visibly evident in the material culture of these houses.