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IMC 2021: Sessions

Session 125: Boundaries (Re-)Defined, Boundaries (Re-)Interpreted, I

Monday 5 July 2021, 11.15-12.45

Organiser:Ian Styler, Department of History, University of Birmingham
Moderator/Chair:Ian Styler, Department of History, University of Birmingham
Paper 125-aStoudios: The Convergence of Paleography, History, and Influence across Monastic Borders
(Language: English)
Clark Bates, Institute for Textual Scholarship & Electronic Editing, Department of Theology & Religion, University of Birmingham
Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Ecclesiastical History, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Monasticism
Paper 125-b'Savoir à quel saint se vouer' in the Priory of Jully-les-Nonnains?
(Language: English)
Aurore Drouhin, L'École doctorale Sciences humaines et sociales - Perspectives européennes (ED SHS-PE), Université de Strasbourg
Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Hagiography, Monasticism, Religious Life
Paper 125-cFor Fear of the Multitudes: Maintaining the Boundaries of Cistercian Sanctity in the 12th Century
(Language: English)
Georgina Fitzgibbon, Department of History, University of Birmingham
Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Monasticism, Religious Life
Abstract

This is the first of two sessions exploring monastic and saintly boundaries - whether they be physical or imagined, tangible or perceived. Covering a geographical area that stretches from the eastern Mediterranean to the British Isles, this session uses palaeographic, hagiographic, and miracle collection evidence to define and interpret the boundaries of influence of a Byzantine monastery and a 12th-century French nunnery, and the gender and spiritual boundaries of 12th-century German, French, and English Cistercian houses. The common thread linking these papers is that they explore the definition and maintenance of these boundaries, albeit through a diverse range of source material.