IMC 2022: Sessions
Session 132: Temporal and Textual Borders in Female Convents from the Late Middle Ages to the Early Modern Period
Monday 4 July 2022, 11.15-12.45
| Organiser: | Yao Lu, Abteilung für germanische Sprachen und Literaturen Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Magdalena Müller, Lehrstuhl für Mittelalterliche Geschichte II Albert-Ludwigs-Universiät Freiburg |
| Paper 132-a | Negotiating Temporal Boundaries: A Compendium from the Penitents of St Mary Magdalene (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - German, Liturgy, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Monasticism |
| Paper 132-b | Adelhausen Sisterbook Unchained: A Textual History on Its Changing Borders (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - German, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Religious Life, Women's Studies |
| Paper 132-c | Transcending the Bounds of Time in Remembrance: The Nuremberg Poor Clares' Chronicles (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Language and Literature - German, Women's Studies |
| Abstract | This session focuses on the temporal and textual borders in female convents' writing from the Late Middle Ages to the early modern period of south Germany. Paper A demonstrates how the Penitents of St Mary Magdalene were shaping their identity by compiling texts from different periods in one manuscript. Paper B illustrates that, with copying, collecting, and rewriting in the textual history of Adelhausen Sisterbook, borders of different institutions dissolved and a collective border was generated. Paper C examines the Nuremberg Poor Clares' Chronicles as a respective memory work from their writing in the first half of the 16th century over their rediscovery in the 19th century to the present. |