IMC 2021: Sessions
Session 2225: Fluid Boundaries in Monastic Life, I: From Late Antiquity up to c. 900
Friday 9 July 2021, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Henri Pirenne Institute for Medieval Studies, Universiteit Gent / Université de Montréal |
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| Organiser: | Micol Long, Vakgroep Geschiedenis, Universiteit Gent |
| Moderator/Chair: | Steven Vanderputten, Vakgroep Geschiedenis, Universiteit Gent |
| Paper 2225-a | Virgins as Priests: Liturgical Agency in Late Antique Hagiography (Language: English) Index terms: Monasticism, Religious Life |
| Paper 2225-b | Who Were the Servants of basilicae sanctorum in Merovingian Gaul? (Language: English) Index terms: Monasticism, Religious Life |
| Abstract | This is the first of two sessions which will challenge and explore the traditional notion of rigid boundaries between different forms of the religious life throughout the Middle Ages. Focusing on the period between Late Antiquity and c. 900, papers in this session will investigate the permeable and fluid nature of these boundaries by looking at the liturgical agency of female saints in hagiographical narratives, at the status of religious men and women as servants of basilical churches and at the Carolingian debates concerning the nature of the different orders which constituted the ecclesia. |