IMC 2018: Sessions
Session 1741: Memory and Methodology: Anchoritic Legacies and Historical Reconstruction
Thursday 5 July 2018, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | International Anchoritic Society |
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| Organisers: | Alicia Smith, Queen's College, University of Oxford Victoria Yuskaitis, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds |
| Moderator/Chair: | Ayoush Sarmada Lazikani, Hertford College, University of Oxford |
| Paper 1741-a | Archaeology and Anchoritism: A New Methodology (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - General, Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Medievalism and Antiquarianism, Religious Life |
| Paper 1741-b | Anchoritic Legacies in the Vernon and Simeon Manuscripts (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Lay Piety, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Religious Life |
| Paper 1741-c | 'Each way means loneliness - and communion': Anchoritic Practice Refracted and Remembered in T. S. Eliot (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Medievalism and Antiquarianism, Religious Life |
| Abstract | The 2018 IMC theme of 'Memory' prompts a reconsideration of our understanding of English anchoritism, from its ideological beginnings with the Desert Fathers through to present-day veneration of Julian of Norwich. Anchoritism has been remembered and reinterpreted differently through the medieval period and later: the vocation was continually reshaped by its participants, texts, and community expectations and needs, and current trends in historiography also reconstruct anchoritism to some extent into a legacy that resonates with modern audiences. This session aims to highlight understudied elements of the vocation by deconstructing these historiographic trends, such as explicit focus on gender or a reliance on narrow geographical or temporal limits. It includes papers from a variety of disciplines which bring a fresh methodological perspective to bear on various sources, from instructional texts to archaeological traces. |