IMC 2015: Sessions
Session 118: New Directions in the Study of Women Religious, I: Old Nuns, New Narratives
Monday 6 July 2015, 11.15-12.45
Sponsor: | The Journal of Medieval Monastic Studies (JMMS) / History of Women Religious of Britain & Ireland Network (H-WBRI) |
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Organisers: | Kimm Curran, History Lab+, Institute of Historical Research, University of London Kirsty Day, Institute for Medieval Studies / School of History, University of Leeds |
Moderator/Chair: | Kimm Curran, History Lab+, Institute of Historical Research, University of London |
Paper 118-a | Going Back to the Start: Creating Inclusive Histories of the Early Franciscan Order (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Monasticism, Religious Life, Women's Studies |
Paper 118-b | Modern and Contemporary Historiography within the Orders: Friars and Nuns on Medieval Iberian Clarissan Convents (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Monasticism, Religious Life, Women's Studies |
Paper 118-c | 'Hearing is Believing' Revisited: Female Monastic Church Space and Sound (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Monasticism, Religious Life, Women's Studies |
Abstract | Many of the received narratives in scholarship on the female components of the medieval religious orders are incredibly problematic. Some evaluate the evidence produced by and on nuns in relation to androcentric scholarly norms instead of on their own terms, others are naïve to what is emphasised and concealed in the scholarly narratives on which they build, others still portray very narrow views of the lived experiences of medieval nuns. This interdisciplinary session brings together scholars from the UK and Spain to propose new historical and art historical narratives that illuminate, rather than limit, our understanding of medieval nuns. |