IMC 2018: Sessions

Session 850: Cistercians, IV: Travelling Cistercians

Sponsor:	Instituto de Estudos Medievais, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Organiser:	Terryl N. Kinder, _Cîteaux: Commentarii cistercienses_, Pontigny
Moderator/Chair:	David N. Bell, Department of Religious Studies, Memorial University of Newfoundland
Paper 850-a	Portuguese Cistercian Abbesses and Nuns Travelling in the 13th and 14th Centuries (Language: English) Luís Miguel Rêpas, Instituto de Estudos Medievais, Universidade Nova de Lisboa Index terms: Monasticism, Religious Life, Social History, Women's Studies
Paper 850-b	The Centrality of the Practice of Travel in the Reformist Action of Frei Estêvão De Aguiar as Abbot of the Cistercian Monastery of Santa Maria De Alcobaça, 1431-1446 (Language: English) Paulo Catarino Lopes, Instituto de Estudos Medievais / Centro de História d’Aquém e d’Além-Mar, Universidade Nova de Lisboa Index terms: Monasticism, Religious Life, Social History
Paper 850-c	The Circulation of Manuscripts and Monks from Alcobaça (Language: English) Catarina Fernandes Barreira, Instituto de Estudos Medievais, Universidade Nova de Lisboa Index terms: Manuscripts and Palaeography, Monasticism, Religious Life
Abstract	The interesting topic of Cistercians who do not always remain within the cloister will be examined in Portugal: the travel of abbesses and nuns, the abbot of Alcobaça and his deep connections with the Portuguese crown, and the circulation of manuscripts and their makers.