IMC 2024: Sessions
Session 1639: Losers and Outcasts of Monastic Reform, II: Late Medieval Realities and Perceptions (i)
Thursday 4 July 2024, 11:15-12:45
| Sponsor: | Henri Pirenne Institute for Medieval Studies, Universiteit Gent |
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| Organisers: | Catherine Rosbrook, Vakgroep Geschiedenis, Universiteit Gent Steven Vanderputten, Vakgroep Geschiedenis, Universiteit Gent |
| Moderator/Chair: | Jirki Thibaut, Brepols Publishers |
| Paper 1639-a | A Story of Losers?: The Abbatial Succession Crisis at St Sepulcre of Cambrai (1253-1274) According to the Chronicle of John of Raillencourt (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Historiography - Medieval, Monasticism and Religious Life |
| Paper 1639-b | Inclusion and Exclusion in Cistercian Historical Narratives in the Late Middle Ages (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Historiography - Medieval, Monasticism and Religious Life |
| Paper 1639-c | Losers of Monastic Reform: How to Escape from Monastic Vows? - A Case Study of France in the 1480s-1530s (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Monasticism and Religious Life |
| Abstract | While recent scholarship has demonstrated the profound impact of reform interventions in medieval monastic communities, the experiences of those members who were evicted or left by their own accord remain poorly understood. Testimonies about this cohort of ‘losers’ or ‘outcasts’ have the potential to shed light on why certain agents were declared persona non grata, revealing insights such as the circumstances that led to their departure or removal, how they were affected by such drastic events, and how these events became embedded in long-term memory. This second of three sessions interrogates these processes in a late medieval male setting. |