IMC 2017: Sessions
Session 1731: Ecclesiastical Literary and Visual Culture in Medieval England
Thursday 6 July 2017, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Journal of Medieval Monastic Studies, Brepols |
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| Organiser: | Karen Stöber, Departament d'Història, Universitat de Lleida |
| Moderator/Chair: | Janet Burton, School of Archaeology, History & Anthropology, University of Wales Trinity Saint David |
| Paper 1731-a | 'No shape at all'?: Analysing the Literary Scope of Medieval Chronicles and Annals (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Literacy and Orality, Monasticism, Religious Life |
| Paper 1731-b | Sergys and Singing Cakes: The Elevation of the Host and Its Visual Setting in Medieval England (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Religious, Art History - General, Religious Life, Sermons and Preaching |
| Paper 1731-c | Abbots and Aristocrats: Patronage at Hailes Abbey at the End of the Middle Ages (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Religious, Art History - General, Monasticism, Religious Life |
| Abstract | The three papers in this session look at ecclesiastical culture in medieval England from three different angles. The first paper will use the Chronicon Anglicanum of Coggeshall Abbey and the 'Dunstable Annals' as a starting point to examine the literary devices utilised by annalists and chroniclers, exposing the layered identities of English monastic houses in the Middle Ages. Paper -b will look the at key medieval ceremonial development within the Mass, the elevation of the host, focusing on the way this ceremonial action related to and also shaped the visual and aesthetic landscape of the medieval church. And paper -c will explore the identity and motives of patrons at Hailes Abbey in the century before its suppression, with an especial focus on the insights this patronage affords into the religious life of the monastery. |