IMC 2015: Sessions
Session 616: Reforming Women: Impact of the Spirituality of Helfta Community after Arundel
Tuesday 7 July 2015, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences, Shizuoka University |
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| Organiser: | Naoë Kukita Yoshikawa, Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences, Shizuoka University |
| Moderator/Chair: | Laura Saetveit Miles, Institutt for Fremmedspråk, Universitet i Bergen |
| Paper 616-a | Mechtild of Hackeborn and Marian Devotion of Helfta Community (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Language and Literature - Latin, Monasticism |
| Paper 616-b | Fragmentation and Reform: Mechtild of Hackeborn, a Revelation of Purgatory, and the Shaping of Late Medieval English Spirituality (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Middle English, Monasticism |
| Paper 616-c | All Saints Together: Cecily Neville's Devotional Library (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Language and Literature - Middle English, Lay Piety |
| Abstract | Whilst scholars have addressed the role played by religious women’s visionary activities during periods of upheaval and reform in late medieval Europe, an impact that the spirituality of Helfta nuns had on early 15th-century spiritual reform and devotional practice in England has yet to be fully explored. This session primarily focuses on the Booke of Gostly Grace, the Middle English translation of Liber specialis gratiae, the revelations of Mechtild of Hackeborn, in the light that the Booke was translated into English to enforce the spirit of reform and ensure a new religious beginning after the trouble with Wycliffe and his followers. |