IMC 2017: Sessions
Session 1030: Gendered Perspectives on Monastic Reform, I: Early Medieval Transformations
Wednesday 5 July 2017, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | Religion & Society in the Early & Central Middle Ages (ReSoMa), Universiteit Gent / Henri Pirenne Institute for Medieval Studies, Universiteit Gent / Université Paris VIII - Vincennes-Saint-Denis |
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| Organisers: | Anne-Marie Helvétius, amhelvetius@univ-paris8.fr Steven Vanderputten, Vakgroep Geschiedenis, Universiteit Gent |
| Moderator/Chair: | Steven Vanderputten, Vakgroep Geschiedenis, Universiteit Gent |
| Paper 1030-a | Reforming Male and Female Communities in Merovingian Gaul (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Monasticism, Religious Life |
| Paper 1030-b | Enclosure Re-Opened: Gender and Sacred Space in Early Medieval Monasticism (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Religious, Gender Studies, Monasticism, Religious Life |
| Paper 1030-c | Who Has the Fairest Prayers of Them All?: Gendered Transformations of Monastic Liturgy in the Early Medieval West (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Liturgy, Monasticism, Religious Life |
| Abstract | Recent years have seen tremendous progress in the study of how institutional, liturgical, and spiritual reform was planned, debated, implemented, and challenged in monastic communities of the medieval period. This includes a significant amount of research on gender aspects of monastic culture, and on male-female relations in the context of women's monasticism: yet so far, discussions for distinct periods have rarely intersected. In a first of four sessions that seek to address this lack of cross-temporal debate, speakers will consider gendered aspects of reform in the earliest period of the Middle Ages: Anne-Marie Helvétius will consider the similarities and differences in the approach to reform of male and female communities; Albrecht Diem will explore aspects of gendered space; and Gordon Blennemann will investigate gendered transformations of the liturgy. |