IMC 2018: Sessions
Session 232: British Archaeological Association, II: Monastic Memory - Architecture and Its Importance to the Monastic Life
Monday 2 July 2018, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | British Archaeological Association |
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| Organiser: | Harriet Mahood, Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Reading |
| Moderator/Chair: | Lindy Grant, Department of History, University of Reading |
| Paper 232-a | Performance and Commemoration in the Chapter House of Saint-Georges-de-Boscherville, I (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Architecture - Religious, Art History - Sculpture, Monasticism |
| Paper 232-b | Performance and Commemoration in the Chapter House of Saint-Georges-de-Boscherville, II (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Architecture - Religious, Art History - Sculpture, Monasticism |
| Paper 232-c | Understanding the Monastic Life through 'La Sainte Abbaye' (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Religious, Art History - General, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Monasticism |
| Abstract | This session explores memory within the monastic complex. Examining how the buildings themselves allowed the monks to understand their life and vocation. For example, our first paper explores how designs incorporated within the chapter house reminded those entering of their place in the monastery, but also of their place in life itself and the way of life that they followed. Similarly, the main gatehouse of the monastery granted access to the outside world, or the monastic world, and the second paper of this session will explore what the image of the gate meant to monastic communities. |