IMC 2022: Sessions
Session 225: Crossing Boundaries in Late Antique Monasticism
Monday 4 July 2022, 14.15-15.45
Sponsor: | Network for the Study of Late Antique & Early Medieval Monasticism |
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Organiser: | Albrecht Diem, Department of History, Syracuse University, New York |
Moderator/Chair: | Albrecht Diem, Department of History, Syracuse University, New York |
Paper 225-a | Byzantine Monasticism: The Road to Salvation by Way of Wanderings and Enclosures (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Religious, Byzantine Studies, Hagiography, Monasticism |
Paper 225-b | Rites of Passage and Conceptual Monastic Enclosures in Late Antiquity (Language: English) Index terms: Anthropology, Ecclesiastical History, Monasticism, Religious Life |
Paper 225-c | Communal Boundaries: Caesarius of Arles, Predestination, and Excluding Sin and Religious Outsiders from Christian Space (Language: English) Index terms: Lay Piety, Monasticism, Sermons and Preaching, Theology |
Abstract | The papers in this session aim at establishing connections between different manifestations of social and physical boundaries in late antique monasticism. Christodoulos Papavarnavas focusses on the nexus of spatial boundaries, isolation and sanctity in Byzantine monasticism on the basis of hagiographic texts. Michael Lovell describes the relationship between social boundaries and the predestination debate in the world of Caesarius or Arles, based on his sermons to monks and lay people. Michel Wuk analyses rituals of monastic conversion and renunciation of the world and their roots in rituals of entry into armed forces, philosophical schools, and secretive societies. |