IMC 2017: Sessions
Session 330: Inside and Outside: Relationships between Monasteries and the World, II
Monday 3 July 2017, 16.30-18.00
Organisers: | Cristina Andenna, Forschungsstelle für Vergleichende Ordensgeschichte (FOVOG), Technische Universität Dresden Katrin Rösler, Forschungsstelle für Vergleichende Ordensgeschichte (FOVOG), Technische Universität Dresden |
---|---|
Moderator/Chair: | Gert Melville, Forschungsstelle für Vergleichende Ordensgeschichte (FOVOG), Technische Universität Dresden |
Paper 330-a | Nuns as In-Betweens: Forms of Contact and Exchange between Nuns from High Nobility and Their Families in Late Medieval Germany (Language: English) Index terms: Monasticism, Religious Life, Social History |
Paper 330-b | Enclosure within Enclosure: How Severe Illnesses Were Dealt with in Reformed Dominican Convents (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Monasticism, Religious Life, Women's Studies |
Paper 330-c | Sança, Queen of Naples, and Soror Clara: A Life in between Religious Desire and Secular Responsibilities (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Historiography - Medieval, Women's Studies |
Abstract | In the Middle Ages, traditional forms of monasticism regarded monasteries and the world as antithetical poles. On the one hand, joining a monastic community meant leaving the world behind, so to be 'outside'. On the other hand, from 'within' the cloister, the secular sphere was perceived as the 'other'. This antithetical perception has been challenged in recent scholarship. The two combined sections aim to highlight in different perspectives the multiplicity of entanglements between both spheres, and to qualify the reciprocal relation of exclusion and inclusion. |