IMC 2016: Sessions
Session 133: Women Religious: Written Norm and Lived Practice
Monday 4 July 2016, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Société d’Études Interdisciplinaires sur les Femmes au Moyen Âge et la Renaissance / ARDIT Cultures Medievals |
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| Organiser: | Laura Cayrol Bernardo, Universidad de Oviedo |
| Moderator/Chair: | Kimm Curran, History Lab+, Institute of Historical Research, University of London |
| Paper 133-a | More Than Meets the Eye: Female Religious Settlements in Central Catalonia, 13th-16th Centuries (Language: English) Index terms: Monasticism, Religious Life, Women's Studies |
| Paper 133-b | High Walls, Open Gates: Partial Enclosure in Beguine Life Rules (Language: English) Index terms: Monasticism, Religious Life, Women's Studies |
| Abstract | Recent studies have cast doubt on the notion that normative texts like rules, customaries, statutes, and suchlike may be used as objective sources to reconstruct the discipline and organization of monastic groups, or even to reconstruct authors' expectations of the future realities of life within these communities. With the exception of the late-antique and early-medieval periods, however, these insights have yet to generate significant interest in the study of female religious groups. This session seeks to broaden the chronological scope of the discussion, and bring together papers looking a) at the precise circumstances of the introduction and putative application of normative texts, b) the study of normative texts in female religious contexts, and c) the role of written norms in organizing life within female monasteries generally. |