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IMC 2021: Sessions

Session 1325: Cistercians, IV: Cistercian Nuns in Germany through Visions, Magic, and Martial Arts

Wednesday 7 July 2021, 16.30-18.00

Sponsor:Cîteaux: Commentarii cistercienses, Pontigny
Organiser:Terryl N. Kinder, _Cîteaux: Commentarii cistercienses_, Pontigny
Moderator/Chair:Terryl N. Kinder, _Cîteaux: Commentarii cistercienses_, Pontigny
Respondent:Donna L. Sadler, Department of Art History, Agnes Scott College
Paper 1325-aMessages from the Dead to the Living: The Visions Experienced by the Prioress of St Thomas an der Kyll Cistercian Nunnery in 13th-Century Germany
(Language: English)
Elizabeth Freeman, School of Humanities, University of Tasmania
Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Monasticism, Religious Life, Women's Studies
Paper 1325-bMagic and the Martial Arts in Two Medieval Nunneries
(Language: English)
David N. Bell, Department of Religious Studies, Memorial University of Newfoundland
Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Monasticism, Religious Life, Women's Studies
Abstract

In this session Cistercian nuns continue to emerge from the quietude in which they have often been hidden: the vision of long-deceased nuns bringing messages to the current prioress and the community's reaction, or nuns using magic to show how they were prepared to oppose reforms which they had no intention of supporting.