IMC 2014: Sessions

Session 330: Negotiating Monastic Space, III: Monasteries and Auctoritas in Medieval Europe

Monday 7 July 2014, 16.30-18.00

Sponsor:	The Journal of Medieval Monastic Studies (JMMS)
Organiser:	Karen Stöber, Departament d'Història, Universitat de Lleida
Moderator/Chair:	Kimm Curran, History Lab+, Institute of Historical Research, University of London
Paper 330-a	Authority and Conflict at the Cistercian Abbey of Strata Florida (Language: English) Janet Burton, School of Archaeology, History & Anthropology, University of Wales Trinity Saint David Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Monasticism, Religious Life
Paper 330-b	Having the Final Word: Negotiating Authority in a Catalan Cistercian Nunnery (Language: English) Karen Stöber, Departament d'Història, Universitat de Lleida Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Monasticism, Religious Life
Paper 330-c	Saints and Cistercians: Identity and Authority in Late Medieval Communities (Language: English) Emilia Jamroziak, Forschungsstelle für Vergleichende Ordensgeschichte (FOVOG), Technische Universität Dresden / Institute for Medieval Studies / School of History, University of Leeds Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Monasticism, Religious Life
Abstract	The papers in this session look at different aspects of auctoritas in medieval monastic life. The first paper addresses the power-struggle between two Welsh Cistercian abbots. The second paper examines the negotiations of power and authority in a small Cistercian nunnery in medieval Catalonia; paper 3 will investigate how cults of saints in late medieval Cistercian monasteries were used by their communities to create specific ideas about their own identity and issues of authority; and the final paper uses the example of a glass panel from Petershausen Abbey to discuss the abbot's wider patronage and authority within his monastery.