IMC 2015: Sessions
Session 1537: Using and Abusing Religious Communities in the Later Middle Ages
Thursday 9 July 2015, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | The Journal of Medieval Monastic Studies |
|---|---|
| Organiser: | Karen Stöber, Departament d'Història, Universitat de Lleida |
| Moderator/Chair: | Janet Burton, School of Archaeology, History & Anthropology, University of Wales Trinity Saint David |
| Paper 1537-a | The Power of Religious Order Bishops in Medieval Ireland (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Monasticism, Religious Life |
| Paper 1537-b | 'New wine in old wineskins': The Parochial Use of Suppressed Religious Houses, 1540-1740 (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Monasticism, Religious Life |
| Paper 1537-c | Battle Abbey Gatehouse: Monastic Identity in the Late Middle Ages (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Religious, Art History - General, Monasticism, Religious Life |
| Abstract | This session focuses on different ways in which religious communities were involved with external parties in the medieval British Isles. The first paper will survey one of the many issues raised by this phenomenon, namely, the capacity of these bishops to influence religious foundations in their dioceses and to interfere in the running of existing foundations. The second paper will explore the phenomenon of the conversion of monastic churches to parochial use over the two centuries following the Dissolution. And the third paper will discuss the architecture of the gatehouse within the wider context of English monastic gatehouses, their various functions and the meanings attached to them by the monks of Battle Abbey and the wider world. |