Other Monasticisms II
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Special Session
Organizer Name
Sheila Bonde; Clark Maines
Organizer Affiliation
Brown Univ.; Wesleyan Univ.
Presider Name
Erica Kinias
Presider Affiliation
Brown Univ.
Paper Title 1
Vallombrosan and Camaldolese: Architecture and Identity in Two Italian Reform Orders
Presenter 1 Name
Erik Gustafson
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Washington and Lee Univ.
Paper Title 2
Sainte-Trinité de Tiron and the Architecture of Monastic Reform in the West of France
Presenter 2 Name
Sheila Bonde; Clark Maines
Paper Title 3
Brotherly Rivals: The Templars, the Hospitallers, and the Architectural Development of the Temple Church in London
Presenter 3 Name
Zachary Stewart
Presenter 3 Affiliation
Texas A&M Univ.
Start Date
12-5-2018 1:30 PM
Session Location
Schneider 2355
Description
One of the most important features of the Middle Ages, monasticism shaped, and was shaped by, art, architecture, history, literature, liturgy, theology. There were over 300 ‘orders’ active in the medieval and early modern periods. Despite this importance and ubiquity, our approach to this major sub-field is lacking in both breadth and depth, and our understanding of monasticism has been skewed by a scholarly imbalance in study and publication. The issue of alternative forms of monastic life was raised by Roberta Gilchrist in her book entitled: Contemplation and Action: The Other Monasticism. Her study focused on monastic communities traditionally neglected by historians and archaeologists: infirmaries, hospitals, leprosaria and almhouses, military orders, hermitages and houses for women. Our review of articles published in Speculum in 1988 revealed that nearly three-quarters of those publications had been devoted to a very restricted set of monastic orders. Survey books in history and art history privilege the Cistercians, Cluniacs, independent Benedictines, and a handful of other communities. Orders such as the Val des Écoliers, Celestines, Valliscaulians, Augustinians, Arrouasians, Tironensians and even Victorines and Praemonstratensians require more attention if we are to have a fuller and more nuanced understanding of the place of monasticism in the middle ages. These papers by scholars from history, art history
Robert Clark Maines
Other Monasticisms II
Schneider 2355
One of the most important features of the Middle Ages, monasticism shaped, and was shaped by, art, architecture, history, literature, liturgy, theology. There were over 300 ‘orders’ active in the medieval and early modern periods. Despite this importance and ubiquity, our approach to this major sub-field is lacking in both breadth and depth, and our understanding of monasticism has been skewed by a scholarly imbalance in study and publication. The issue of alternative forms of monastic life was raised by Roberta Gilchrist in her book entitled: Contemplation and Action: The Other Monasticism. Her study focused on monastic communities traditionally neglected by historians and archaeologists: infirmaries, hospitals, leprosaria and almhouses, military orders, hermitages and houses for women. Our review of articles published in Speculum in 1988 revealed that nearly three-quarters of those publications had been devoted to a very restricted set of monastic orders. Survey books in history and art history privilege the Cistercians, Cluniacs, independent Benedictines, and a handful of other communities. Orders such as the Val des Écoliers, Celestines, Valliscaulians, Augustinians, Arrouasians, Tironensians and even Victorines and Praemonstratensians require more attention if we are to have a fuller and more nuanced understanding of the place of monasticism in the middle ages. These papers by scholars from history, art history
Robert Clark Maines