IMC 2015: Sessions
Session 1237: Between Worldly Objectives and Spiritual Renewal, III: Reform Narratives and Challenges
Wednesday 8 July 2015, 14.15-15.45
Organiser: | Annalena Müller, Departement Geschichte, Universität Basel |
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Moderator/Chair: | Jennifer C. Edwards, Department of History, Manhattan College, New York |
Paper 1237-a | The Responsibility to Observance: Johannes Meyer's Epistolary Instruction (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - German, Monasticism, Religious Life |
Paper 1237-b | Reform and the Shaping of Female Religious Identities in 10th-Century Upper Lotharingia (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Hagiography, Monasticism |
Paper 1237-c | Sermons from Female Convents as a Tool for Reform in the Medieval Low Countries? (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Dutch, Monasticism, Sermons and Preaching, Women's Studies |
Abstract | The late medieval convent reforms that swept Europe from the 14th to the 17th century were rife with challenges. Obstacles came from within the convents, as they were usually hesitant to embrace reform. Furthermore, modern scholars interested in this movement must contend with ambiguous source material and difficulties of chronology, as the reform movement occurred in the transition between the medieval and early modern periods. This panel will address some of the challenges that characterize the European convent reforms in the late medieval and early modern periods, both in their own time and for their historical study today. |