IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 529: Enclosed for Life: The Rigidity (or Permeability) of Anchoritic Borders, I - Borders in the Landscape
Tuesday 7 July 2020, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | International Anchoritic Society |
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| Organiser: | Victoria Yuskaitis, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds |
| Moderator/Chair: | Alicia Smith, Queen's College, University of Oxford |
| Paper 529-a | Visualising the Architectural Space of the Hermit's Cave in Early Medieval Ireland and Britain (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Sculpture, Hagiography, Monasticism |
| Paper 529-b | Women at the Door: Female Religious on the Borders of Male Spiritual Space (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Monasticism, Religious Life |
| Paper 529-c | Anchoritic Borders in the Welsh Marches: A Welsh Grave Slab in a Shropshire Anchorite Cell (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - General, Geography and Settlement Studies, Medievalism and Antiquarianism, Religious Life |
| Abstract | Medieval anchorites were simultaneously enclosed within cells and exposed through the presence of these cells; restricted physically and unrestrained mentally; dead to the world and reliant upon the church community to fulfil their vocations. The walls of the anchorite cell have been described as tomb-like, but also as permeable via the few windows. Can a border exist without the potential for that boundary to be breached? Is there a difference between the rhetoric of borders and the lived experience of these boundaries? How were anchoritic borders created and maintained, and for what purpose - and what happened when these borders failed to function? |