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IMC 2018: Sessions

Session 1041: Birgittine Acts of Memory, I: Communities and Manuscripts

Wednesday 4 July 2018, 09.00-10.30

Sponsor:Institut de Recerca de Cultures Medievals (IRCVM), Universitat de Barcelona / Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap, Lunds universitet
Organisers:David Carrillo-Rangel, Institut de Recerca de Cultures Medievals (IRCVM), Universitat de Barcelona
Erik Claeson, Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap, Lunds Universitet
Moderator/Chair:Erik Claeson, Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap, Lunds Universitet
Paper 1041-aSt Bridget in a Norwegian Legal Manuscript: Codex Hardenbergensis
(Language: English)
Helen F. Leslie-Jacobsen, Institutt for lingvistiske, litterære og estetiske studier, Universitetet i Bergen
Index terms: Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Law, Manuscripts and Palaeography
Paper 1041-bDonations as Manifestations of Imagined Communities around Birgittine Monasteries on the Baltic Rim
(Language: English)
Anna-Stina Hägglund, Department of History, Åbo Akademi University, Turku
Index terms: Lay Piety, Monasticism, Religious Life
Paper 1041-cThe Community of the Living and the Dead at Syon Abbey: Evidence from Three Necrologies, c. 1415-1650
(Language: English)
Virginia Bainbridge, Department of History, University of Exeter
Index terms: Lay Piety, Monasticism, Religious Life
Abstract

These sessions aim to explore ways of remembering, or acts of memory, related to the figure of Birgitta of Sweden, as well as the order she founded. The premise of these panels is that many ways of remembering her were a conscious choice. The act of memory could take place in the way monastic communities formed a memoria rerum, in the way liturgy was used or in the way sermons were compiled by the priest-brothers.

If acts of memory tie the present of the enunciation with the past, we seek to explore the similarities and differences of these acts and how they shape our perceptions of the past.