IMC 2022: Sessions
Session 1329: Medieval Sacred Spaces, II: Disruptions
Wednesday 6 July 2022, 16.30-18.00
Organiser: | Gustav Zamore, Historiska institutionen, Stockholms universitet |
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Moderator/Chair: | Gustav Zamore, Historiska institutionen, Stockholms universitet |
Paper 1329-a | Dog Kennels, Cowsheds, and Pigsties: Pollution of Sacred Sites as an Argument for Monastic Reform in the 10th-11th Centuries (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Mentalities, Monasticism, Religious Life |
Paper 1329-b | Conflict, Disruption, and Violence: Women Religious on the Frontiers (Language: English) Index terms: Military History, Monasticism, Religious Life, Women's Studies |
Paper 1329-c | Disruption of the Olavian Cult through Spatial Changes across Borders (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Religious, Hagiography, Mentalities, Religious Life |
Abstract | This session, part two of two, expands upon ideas of sacred space as an experiential one to discuss disruptions of these spaces - through means mental, political or physical - and their meaning to medieval societies. Papers examine how monastic concepts of pollution spurred ideas of reform, violence, and destruction of sacred places, and how spatial changes could disrupt saintly cults. Through these disruptive practices, boundaries not only between places but between sacred and profane spaces were both transgressed and transformed. |