Foundations, Re-foundations, and Failed Foundations: The Challenges of Establishing a Monastic Community

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Communis: Consortium for Medieval Monastic Studies

Organizer Name

Katherine Allen Smith

Organizer Affiliation

Univ. of Puget Sound

Presider Name

Alison Locke Perchuk

Presider Affiliation

Occidental College

Paper Title 1

The Many Lives of a Monastic Cult Center: The Abbey of Glanfeuil from AD 830 to 1130

Presenter 1 Name

John B. Wickstrom

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Kalamazoo College

Paper Title 2

A Reforming Network: Peter Damian and the Congregation of Fonte Avellana, 1043-1072

Presenter 2 Name

Kathryn L. Jasper

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Univ. of California-Berkeley

Paper Title 3

The Troubles of Vilanera: A Failed Monastic Foundation in the Fourteenth Century

Presenter 3 Name

Michelle Herder

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Cornell College

Start Date

11-5-2012 3:30 PM

Session Location

Schneider 1135