IMC 2015: Sessions
Session 1610: Grundmann's Legacy, VI: Nuns, Beguines, and Clerics - Interactions and Vernacular Culture
Thursday 9 July 2015, 11.15-12.45
Sponsor: | Center for Medieval & Early Modern Studies, University of Colorado, Boulder |
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Organisers: | Jennifer Kolpacoff Deane, Division of Social Science, University of Minnesota, Morris Anne E. Lester, Department of History, University of Colorado, Boulder |
Moderator/Chair: | Lezlie Knox, Department of History, Marquette University, Wisconsin |
Paper 1610-a | Reassessing the Links between The Women's Religious Movement and the Origins of [French] Vernacular Religious Literature (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Language and Literature - French or Occitan, Religious Life |
Paper 1610-b | 'No one is a good preacher unless he supports the beguinage': Secular Clerics, Reform, and the Beguinage of Paris (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Gender Studies, Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Religious Life |
Abstract | 2015 marks the 80th anniversary of the first publication of Herbert Grundmann's monumental study Religious Movements in the Middle Ages and the 20th anniversary of its translation into English. Part of a strand exploring the origins and impact of Grundmann's historiographical legacy, this session investigates the dynamic and variable interactions between lay/religious women and clergy during the later Middle Ages. Of particular interest are the strategies through which each utilized ideas about beguines to forward institutional interests. |