IMC 2018: Sessions
Session 1526: Gender, Memory, and Worship: The Helfta Theologians Interpreting and Interpreted
Thursday 5 July 2018, 09.00-10.30
Organiser: | Laura Marie Grimes, Sophia Catholic Communion, San Jose |
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Moderator/Chair: | Rebecca Stephenson, School of English, Drama & Film, University College Dublin |
Paper 1526-a | Liturgical ars-memoria and the Function of Memory-Anamnesis (Language: English) Index terms: Liturgy, Monasticism, Theology, Women's Studies |
Paper 1526-b | Martin Luther and the Cistercian Spirit: Luther's Heritage from Bernard of Clairvaux and Mechthild of Hackeborn (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Monasticism, Theology, Women's Studies |
Abstract | This session explores the intersection of memory, gender, and worship in sources by and about the 13th century religious women of Kloster St Marien zu Helfta. The second uses Ricoeur's and Carruthers' theories of memory to compare Easter visions in Mechthild of Hackeborn's Book of Special Grace and Gertrud's Herald of God's Loving Kindness. The third breaks new ground by exploring the evidence for Mechthild of Hackeborn's influence on Martin Luther. |