IMC 2020: Sessions

Session 1053: Debe de cetero permanere clausura ita: The Question of Enclosure in Medieval Christian Female Spirituality, I

Wednesday 8 July 2020, 09.00-10.30

Sponsor:	TÀCITA MUTA (Grup d'Estudis de Dones i Gènere a l'Antiguitat), Universitat de Barcelona
Organiser:	Araceli Rosillo-Luque, Arxiu-Biblioteca dels Franciscans de Catalunya / Departament d'Història Medieval, Paleografia i Diplomàtica, Universitat de Barcelona
Moderator/Chair:	Araceli Rosillo-Luque, Arxiu-Biblioteca dels Franciscans de Catalunya / Departament d'Història Medieval, Paleografia i Diplomàtica, Universitat de Barcelona
Paper 1053-a	Enclosure and Seclusion Strategies of Female Asceticism during the Centuries of Late Antiquity (Language: English) Jordina Sales-Carbonell, Grup de Recerques en Antiguitat Tardana, Universitat de Barcelona Index terms: Gender Studies, Mentalities, Religious Life
Paper 1053-b	A Fixed Point in Time: Enclosed Textuality in the Anchorhold (Language: English) Brenna Duperron, Department of English, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia Index terms: Gender Studies, Mentalities, Religious Life
Paper 1053-c	Why Did English Fontevraudine Nuns Ignore Periculoso? (Language: English) Joyce Beelman, Department of History, Western Washington University, Bellingham Index terms: Gender Studies, Mentalities, Religious Life
Paper 1053-d	Following in Their Footsteps: Virtual Pilgrimage, Women on Pilgrimage, and Navigating Enclosure in Mid to Late Medieval Europe (Language: English) Pelia Werth, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds
Abstract	Enclosure has been since the origins of monasticism a key point of attention and struggle in both regular and non-regulated female religious communities. This session aims to to built a discussion network on enclosure and enclosure processes lived by monastic, mendicant, and non-regulated female communities in medieval Christianity from an interdisciplinary perpective, offering papers connected to normative regulations, archaeological and architectural evidence, political actions, and symbolic and artistic representations about the topic.