IMC 2015: Sessions
Session 1731: Scripting Reform?: Manuscript Contributions to Intellectual Transformation in a Monastic Context
Thursday 9 July 2015, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Religion & Society in the Early & Central Middle Ages (ReSoMA) / Henri Pirenne Institute for Medieval Studies, Universiteit Gent |
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| Organiser: | Tjamke Snijders, Vakgroep Geschiedenis, Universiteit Gent |
| Moderator/Chair: | Jay Diehl, Department of History, Long Island University, New York |
| Paper 1731-a | Manuscripts as Repertoire: Negotiating Reform in a High Medieval Community of Practice (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Monasticism |
| Paper 1731-b | Steven as Jerome: Modelling Text and Image in the Early Cîteaux Scriptorium (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Monasticism |
| Paper 1731-c | Reorganizing the Lectionaries of Fleury (Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire): Stability or Change? (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Monasticism, Sermons and Preaching |
| Abstract | Intellectual transformations in high medieval monasteries can often be linked to the material world of the monks. Scholars have studied manuscripts, architectural constructions and other visual arts as the celebration of a successful reform. Material culture is thus seen as the passive result of a change in institutional policy. This session will take a different approach, and study how manuscript culture could actively contribute to the shaping of an intellectual transformation through its illuminations, the organization of texts and readings, and the interaction between both. |