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 |
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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-a | Messages 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) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Monasticism, Religious Life, Women's Studies |
Paper 1325-b | Magic and the Martial Arts in Two Medieval Nunneries (Language: English) 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. |