IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 1517: Fluid Boundaries in Monastic Life, I: Ideals and Representations from Late Antiquity up to 800
Thursday 9 July 2020, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | Henri Pirenne Institute for Medieval Studies, Universiteit Gent / Université de Montréal |
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| Organiser: | Gordon Blennemann, Département d’histoire, Université de Montréal |
| Moderator/Chair: | Steven Vanderputten, Vakgroep Geschiedenis, Universiteit Gent |
| Paper 1517-a | Virgins as Priests: Liturgical Agency in Late Antique Hagiography (Language: English) Index terms: Monasticism, Religious Life |
| Paper 1517-b | Who Were the Servants of Basilicae Sanctorum in Merovingian Gaul? (Language: English) Index terms: Monasticism, Religious Life |
| Paper 1517-c | The Missionary Monks: A Monastic Form of Life between Regula and Everyday Life (Language: English) Index terms: Monasticism, Religious Life |
| Abstract | This is the first of a series of three sessions which will challenge and explore the traditional notion of rigid boundaries between different forms of the religious life between circa 400 and 1300. Focussing on the period between Late Antiquity and c. 800, papers in this session will investigate the permeable and fluid nature of these boundaries by looking at the liturgical agency of female saints in hagiographical narratives, the status of religious men and women as servants of basilical churches, and missionary contexts. |