IMC 2022: Sessions
Session 728: Exploring 'Boundaries' of Medieval English Monasteries
Tuesday 5 July 2022, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Journal of Medieval Monastic Studies |
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| Organisers: | Janet Burton, School of Archaeology, History & Anthropology, University of Wales Trinity Saint David Karen Stöber, Departament d'Història, Universitat de Lleida |
| Moderator/Chair: | Janet Burton, School of Archaeology, History & Anthropology, University of Wales Trinity Saint David |
| Paper 728-a | A Landscape of the Past: Monastic Memory and the Vernacular Addition to the Book of Nunnaminster (Language: English) Index terms: Manuscripts and Palaeography, Monasticism, Religious Life |
| Paper 728-b | Interflores, or Merton's Meandering Manuscripts (Language: English) Index terms: Manuscripts and Palaeography, Monasticism, Religious Life |
| Paper 728-c | The Evolution of a Cistercian Monastic Boundary: The 'Close' at Kirkstead, Lincolnshire, 1139-1299 (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Architecture - Religious, Monasticism |
| Abstract | The three papers in this session explore different tyes of 'boundaries' in the context of medieval English monasteris. Paper 1 focuses on the 10th-century vernacular addition on fol. 40v of the Book of Nunnaminster, which not only describes the land borders of the nunnery, but also articulates communal identity in a period of flux associated with the so-called Benedictine reform. Paper 2 is dedicated to Merton Priory. During the later 13th century this monastery produced a set of annals and acquired a copy of the Flores Historiarum. Both works have complex histories and show the lack of borders in the transmission of manuscripts. The third paper presents some of the results of current historical and archaeological research undertaken as part of the AHRC funded project 'Sacred Landscapes of Medieval Monasteries'. |