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IMC 2015: Sessions

Session 537: Cistercians, IV: Cistercians and the Written Word

Tuesday 7 July 2015, 09.00-10.30

Sponsor:Cîteaux: Commentarii cistercienses
Organiser:Terryl N. Kinder, _Cîteaux: Commentarii cistercienses_, Pontigny
Moderator/Chair:David N. Bell, Department of Religious Studies, Memorial University of Newfoundland
Paper 537-aYou Must Remember This: The Recording and Preservation of Exempla in Britain and Ireland, c. 1200
(Language: English)
Helen Birkett, Department of History, University of Exeter
Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Monasticism, Religious Life
Paper 537-bWriting and Rewriting Exempla Collections in the 14th Century: The Case of Stams, Stiftsbibliothek, 67
(Language: English)
Stefano Mula, Department of Italian, Middlebury College, Vermont
Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Monasticism, Religious Life
Paper 537-cTo be confirmed
(Language: English)
Harriett Webster, School of Archaeology, History & Anthropology, University of Wales Trinity Saint David
Abstract

In this session orality and literacy will be explored in 13th-century examples from Cistercian monasteries in France, Britain, Ireland, and Austria.