IMC 2016: Sessions
Session 806: Organising Daily Life: Benedictine Monasticism between Ideal and Practice, 11th - 13th Centuries
Tuesday 5 July 2016, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | Sonderforschungsbereich 1070 'RessourcenKulturen', Eberhard-Karls-Universität, Tübingen |
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| Organisers: | Marco Krätschmer, Seminar für Mittelalterliche Geschichte, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen Petra Lang, Seminar für Mittelalterliche Geschichte, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen |
| Moderator/Chair: | Steffen Patzold, Seminar für Mittelalterliche Geschichte, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen |
| Paper 806-a | Eating and Drinking in the Monastic Community of Hirsau: Benedictine Monasticism between Asceticism and Physical Needs (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Monasticism, Religious Life |
| Paper 806-b | Spirituality and Economy: A Permanent Challenge to Abbatial Leadership (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - General, Monasticism, Religious Life |
| Paper 806-c | Benedictine Monasticism and the Papacy: A Bottom-Up Perspective from the Low Countries (Language: English) Index terms: Canon Law, Mentalities, Monasticism, Religious Life |
| Abstract | The first paper examines the role and the importance of eating and drinking in the monastic community of Hirsau and deals with the tensions between asceticism and physical needs based both on normative and narrative sources. It also provides a comparative analysis of eating and drinking in other benedictine monasteries. The second paper considers the responsibilty of abbatial leadership to treat the discrepancy between spirituality and economy. The abbot’s virtue of discretio ensures the daily needs while also providing for the ascetic contemplation of his community. The third paper explores the role of the black monks in the creation of the Benedictine Order by taking in account a wide range of sources, such as sermons, charters, and chronicles. This approach aims at adjusting the present-day top-down perspective which regards the Order primarily as failed papal reform. |