IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 338: Carthusians Over the Borderline, II: Life, Death, Imagination
Monday 6 July 2020, 16.30-18.00
Sponsor: | Cartusiana vzw |
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Organisers: | Tom Gaens, Faculteit der Letteren, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen Stephen J. Molvarec, Department of History, Marquette University, Wisconsin |
Moderator/Chair: | Emilia Jamroziak, Institute for Medieval Studies / School of History, University of Leeds |
Paper 338-a | Defining the Boundaries of Carthusian Holiness: The History of the Carthusian Order in the Middle English Universal Chronicle in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS e Museo 160 (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Monasticism |
Paper 338-b | The Image of the Carthusian in Jean de Berry’s Prayerbooks (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Monasticism |
Paper 338-c | From Ordination to Obit: The Prosopography of English Carthusians, c. 1350-1540 (Language: English) Index terms: Genealogy and Prosopography, Monasticism |
Abstract | The Carthusians, just as other monks, lived in between the borders of their symbolic death to the world ('entrance' and 'ordination'), and their biological death ('obit'), the space of both the monstrous and the sublime. Although the lives of medieval Carthusians were often invisible, available images were increasingly projections of exemplary reputations for strictness and holiness. There is a paradoxical relationship to be found in the desire to remain within their enclosures and the reputation they enjoyed. This session examines the lives, deaths, and images of medieval Carthusians, and how these brought them into relationship with the medieval society. |