IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 321: Medieval Mystics: Networks, Relationships, and Influences, III
Monday 3 July 2023, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | Mysticism & Lived Experience Network |
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| Organiser: | Amanda Langley, School of History, Queen Mary University of London |
| Moderator/Chairs: | Einat Klafter, Cohn Institute for the History & Philosophy of Science & Ideas, Tel Aviv University Amanda Langley, School of History, Queen Mary University of London |
| Respondent: | Amanda Langley, School of History, Queen Mary University of London |
| Paper 321-a | Looking with the Eye of Understanding: Agency, Gender, and Optics in The Showings of Julian of Norwich (Language: English) Index terms: Education, Religious Life, Science, Theology |
| Paper 321-b | 'Medieval Nuns: What do they know? Do they know things? Let's find out!' - Knowledge Transmission across Female Monastic Networks in Late Medieval Europe (Language: English) Index terms: Monasticism, Religious Life, Theology, Women's Studies |
| Abstract | The Mysticism & Lived Experience Network has organised a series of panels exploring the networks that developed between mystics, those within their local, regional, and international communities, and those who supported them and their works. These networks were essential for the composition and transmission of the mystics' texts, the validation of their experiences, their spiritual and theological development, and their understanding of religious life, as well as the funding of their communities and charitable works. Such communities also aided prospective canonisation processes and promoted the circulation of ideas that influenced and initiated new generations of mystics into the calling. |