IMC 2018: Sessions

Session 550: Cistercians, I: Memory, Hospitality, and Bernard of Clairvaux

Sponsor:	Cîteaux: Commentarii cistercienses
Organiser:	Terryl N. Kinder, _Cîteaux: Commentarii cistercienses_, Pontigny
Moderator/Chair:	Terryl N. Kinder, _Cîteaux: Commentarii cistercienses_, Pontigny
Paper 550-a	Echoing the Past: The Memory of Bernard of Clairvaux in the Anti-Heretical Polemic of Geoffrey of Auxerre (Language: English) Stamatia Noutsou, Department for the Study of Religions, Masarykova univerzita, Brno Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Mentalities, Monasticism, Religious Life
Paper 550-b	Human Reality Transcended: Gendered Imagery as Conveyor of the Supernatural in Bernard of Clairvaux's Letters (Language: English) Anna-Riina Hakala, Department of Church History, University of Helsinki Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Gender Studies, Literacy and Orality, Religious Life
Paper 550-c	Stricter Customs?: Remembering the Impact of Incorporation on Saints' Cults in the 12th Century (Language: English) Georgina Fitzgibbon, Department of History, University of Birmingham Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Hagiography, Monasticism, Religious Life
Abstract	Through the theme of memory, three speakers will discuss how incorporating the cults of saints affected Cistercian devotional practice, the impact of Bernard of Clairvaux, and whether his fame unfairly overshadowed the theologian and writer Geoffrey of Auxerre.