IMC 2019: Sessions
Session 632: Living in a Material World: Materiality and Monasticism, II
Tuesday 2 July 2019, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Centre for Research in Historiography & Historical Cultures / Department of History & Welsh History, Aberystwyth University |
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| Organiser: | Abigail Monk, Department of History & Welsh History, Aberystwyth University |
| Moderator/Chair: | Katherine Weikert, Department of Archaeology / Department of History, University of Winchester |
| Paper 632-a | Making Monastic Meals Immaterial (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Monasticism |
| Paper 632-b | Growing Old in a Medieval Cistercian Monastery (Language: English) Index terms: Demography, Medicine, Mentalities, Monasticism |
| Paper 632-c | At Death's Door: Taking the Habit before Judgement in Orderic Vitalis's Historia Ecclesiastica (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Latin, Monasticism |
| Abstract | This session is the second of two sessions held on Materiality and Monasticism and focuses on the social aspects of monasticism. The papers in this session will look at the food consumed within the monasteries, old age and the impact that had on Cistercian houses, and the depiction of rejecting the world prior to death in a 12th-century Norman chronicle. The session will contain several broad themes, including hagiography, demography and historiography and is a well-rounded final addition to the 'Living in a Material World: Materiality and Monasticism' sessions. |