IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 1619: Women Religious and the Boundaries of the Late Medieval Convent
Thursday 9 July 2020, 11.15-12.45
| Organiser: | Elizabeth Goodwin, Department of History, University of Sheffield |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Martial Staub, Department of History, University of Sheffield |
| Paper 1619-a | Challenging Borders in Tapestries: The Weaving Nuns of St Walburg in Eichstätt (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Decorative Arts, Monasticism, Religious Life |
| Paper 1619-b | Looking beyond Their Borders: Nuns as Voyeurs (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Religious, Monasticism, Religious Life |
| Paper 1619-c | Transgressing Borders: Nuns Voices Penetrating and Subverting Established Boundaries (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Monasticism, Religious Life |
| Paper 1619-d | Visual Culture and Community (Re)Construction in Late Medieval English Convents (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Monasticism, Religious Life |
| Abstract | Borders, in many ways, define the life of a late medieval nun. She is often subject to physical borders of her enclosure, her community is distinct from those around it, and yet she is often a figure that transcends physical and spiritual borders. This panel will explore the ways in which convents and nuns create, maintain, transcend, and reform the boundaries of these communities - how does visual culture shape the borders between the religious and non-religious life? How do women religious transcend and assert agency over the borders of their communities? And how do nuns themselves explore the boundaries of expression and ways of seeing? |