Other Monasticisms I
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Special Session
Organizer Name
Sheila Bonde; Clark Maines
Organizer Affiliation
Brown Univ.; Wesleyan Univ.
Presider Name
Sheila Bonde
Paper Title 1
The French Celestine Network: Cross-Order and Lay Reform Collaboration in the Late Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries
Presenter 1 Name
Robert L. J. Shaw
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Independent Scholar
Paper Title 2
Sainte-Croix-sous-Offémont: An Archaeological and Architectural Perspective on the Celestine Order
Presenter 2 Name
Arthur Panier
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Univ. de Paris I–Panthéon-Sorbonne/Univ. Libre de Bruxelle
Paper Title 3
Crafting an Order: The Making of Isabelle of France's Minoresses
Presenter 3 Name
Erica Kinias
Presenter 3 Affiliation
Brown Univ.
Start Date
12-5-2018 10:00 AM
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. This study was followed by another published in 2004 which revealed that the pattern remained unchanged over the intervening 16 years. 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 sessions include papers by scholars from history, art history, archaeology and other fields that engage with a broader range of monastic questions and houses.
Robert Clark Maines
Other Monasticisms I
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. This study was followed by another published in 2004 which revealed that the pattern remained unchanged over the intervening 16 years. 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 sessions include papers by scholars from history, art history, archaeology and other fields that engage with a broader range of monastic questions and houses.
Robert Clark Maines