IMC 2015: Sessions
Session 1137: Between Worldly Objectives and Spiritual Renewal, II: Cloister Reform and Cloister Resistance in Late Medieval France
Wednesday 8 July 2015, 11.15-12.45
Organiser: | Annalena Müller, Departement Geschichte, Universität Basel |
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Moderator/Chair: | Steven Vanderputten, Vakgroep Geschiedenis, Universiteit Gent |
Paper 1137-a | The Meaning(s) of Reform (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Monasticism, Religious Life, Women's Studies |
Paper 1137-b | Not so Grands Jours: Abbess Marie Berland's Exile from the Abbey of Sainte-Croix, Poitiers (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Monasticism, Religious Life, Women's Studies |
Paper 1137-c | The Abbess of Montivilliers's Potestas Jurisdictionis (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Law, Monasticism, Women's Studies |
Abstract | In 15th- and 16th-century France, numerous female monastic houses undertook their reform to solve the economic, disciplinary, and religious problems that had accumulated over the centuries. Since the onset of the reform movement, external authorities – foreign abbesses, local lords, as well as bishops – were deeply involved in the reform process of a given house, all the while pursuing different interests. This panel will explore the intersections of religious renewal and external interests, internal resistances, along with the changing semantics of late medieval reform narratives. |