IMC 2021: Sessions
Session 610: Products of Their Environment, II: Ecclesiastical and Monastic
Tuesday 6 July 2021, 11.15-12.45
| Organiser: | Dan Booker, Department of History, University of Bristol |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Victoria Hodgson, Department of History, University of Stirling |
| Paper 610-a | Moral Codes and the Management of Old Norse Religion (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Mentalities, Pagan Religions |
| Paper 610-b | Heaven Sensed: Angel Roofs of East Anglia (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Ecclesiastical History, Mentalities |
| Paper 610-c | The Monastery as a Dialogue Space in De spirituali amicitia (Language: English) Index terms: Monasticism, Religious Life |
| Abstract | Medieval organisations, whether secular or religious, administrative or scholastic, national or local, were comprised of individuals and communities engaged in reciprocal exchange with their institutional environments. These environments might be created by formal rules and regulations which governed the day-to-day lives of individuals and the communities in which they lived or worked; they might also be shaped by informal traditions and customs, which had developed over time to inform how individuals thought and behaved. Institutional environments may have been created slowly or incrementally over long periods; they might also be overhauled rapidly by reformers and significant events. This strand of sessions will provide new and exciting perspectives of the ways in which medieval institutions and institutional environments shaped, or were shaped by, the individuals and communities by which they were comprised, as well the documents or material objects that were produced or maintained within these environments. |