IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 1640: Observant Reform across Borders
Thursday 9 July 2020, 11.15-12.45
| Organiser: | Kathryne Beebe, Department of History, University of Texas, Arlington |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Ian Forrest, Oriel College, University of Oxford |
| Paper 1640-a | Networking beyond the Walls: The Networks of the Dominican Observant Reform of Freiburg im Breisgau (Language: English) Index terms: Monasticism, Religious Life |
| Paper 1640-b | Producing Private Prayerbooks: Medingen Manuscript Production across the Borders of Monastic Reform (1479) and Lutheran Reformation (1524-1544) (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - German, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Religious Life, Theology |
| Paper 1640-c | Mapping Observance: Visualising Observant Reform in Late Medieval Germany (Language: English) Index terms: Computing in Medieval Studies, Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Monasticism, Religious Life |
| Abstract | Borders, medieval and modern, have profoundly shaped the ways in which medieval reformers challenged religious norms, and how modern researchers have understood those challenges. This session investigates both aspects. First, it analyzes how late medieval Dominican women enacted reform across the borders of strict enclosure in which they lived. Then, it interrogates how the boundaries of Observant reform and the Reformation influenced monastic manuscript production in Germany. Finally, it examines the limitations that modern nation-state borders have placed upon our current understanding of the spread of Observant reform throughout all orders, and how GIS digital humanities techniques can help overcome those limitations. |