IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 1719: Women between Worlds?: Vowesses, Beguines, and Anchoresses at Home and in the Community
Thursday 9 July 2020, 14.15-15.45
| Organiser: | Rachel Delman, University College, University of Oxford |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Patricia Cullum, Department of History, University of Huddersfield |
| Paper 1719-a | 'Amongst the Nuns': Vowesses in Convent Space in Late Medieval England (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Religious, Daily Life, Gender Studies, Lay Piety |
| Paper 1719-b | The Vowesses, the Anchoresses, and the Aldermen's Wives: Margaret Beaufort and the Guild of St Katherine in Late Medieval Stamford (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - General, Gender Studies, Lay Piety, Women's Studies |
| Paper 1719-c | Open Space, Thresholds, and the Vocal Gaze: Negotiation of the In-Between in the Lives of 13th-Century Beguines (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Gender Studies, Lay Piety, Religious Life |
| Abstract | Vowesses, beguines, and anchoresses are often said to have occupied a liminal space in late medieval society, treading the line between the laywoman and the female religious. This session will explore the lives and experiences of these women through a focus on the buildings and spaces they inhabited, either on a temporary or permanent basis. In considering a wide range of settings - from nunneries, beguinages, and anchorholds to urban and great households - the papers will collectively consider how the women's material and spiritual practices defined, and were defined by, the spaces and the people they encountered. |