IMC 2018: Sessions
Session 512: Female Abbatial Authority, I
Tuesday 3 July 2018, 09.00-10.30
Sponsor: | Haskins Society / John Rylands Research Institute, University of Manchester |
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Organiser: | Laura Gathagan, Department of History, State University of New York, Cortland |
Moderator/Chair: | Charles Insley, Department of History, University of Manchester |
Paper 512-a | Chronicle of a Death Foretold: Hildegard of Bingen's Memory and Communal Identity at Rupertsberg (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Gender Studies, Monasticism |
Paper 512-b | Abbess Tiburga and the Rebranding of the Convent of St Catherine, Avignon (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Economics - Urban, Gender Studies, Monasticism |
Paper 512-c | From Cash to Capons: How the Abbesses Established a Monastic Income at Saint-Amand, Rouen (Language: English) Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Economics - Urban, Gender Studies, Monasticism |
Abstract | While abbatial authority has recently experienced something of a resurgence of interest in the historical community, female abbatial lordship remains largely unexamined. This session attempts to redress that imbalance, and is specifically concerned with the strategies abbesses used through memory to create community, fashion identity, and guard the resources and prestige of their communities. Themes of the panel include the role of abbesses in creating monastic memory, gender, and authority in the monastic world, abbatial monastic land management and jurisdiction, monastic documentary artifacts as material culture, production and dissemination of women's monastic writing, and female abbatial politics. |