IMC 2015: Sessions
Session 318: New Directions in the Study of Women Religious, III: Illuminating Nuns through Alternative Methodologies
Monday 6 July 2015, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | 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: | Kathryn Maude, Centre for Late Antique & Medieval Studies, King's College London |
| Paper 318-a | Impact, Function, and Importance of Female Religious in Medieval and Modern Landscapes (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - General, Monasticism, Religious Life, Women's Studies |
| Paper 318-b | Reading between the Lines: Discovering Diana and St Agnese in the Letters of Jordan of Saxony (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Monasticism, Religious Life, Women's Studies |
| Paper 318-c | The Mary Magdalene Plays and Problems with Their Construction (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Monasticism, Religious Life, Women's Studies |
| Abstract | This session examines how interdisciplinary methodologies can be used to illuminate our understanding of female religious and to draw attention to the presence of nuns in the scholarly arenas from which they have thus far been deemed absent. Theories of landscape archaeology, the close reading of letters, the analysis of plays, and the assessment of convents as centres of cultural production will all be considered as methods that can be employed to bring out the figure of the nun from the margins of scholarship on medieval religiosity, and to nuance readings of the importance of women religious in medieval society and in modern scholarly enquiries. |