CONGRESS CANCELED Humility among Medieval Benedictines: What Was It and Was It Good for Them?
Description
Humility is the character trait most referenced and praised by Benedictine authors. Humility is very difficult to define and perhaps no easier to live. The papers in this session investigate how humility was understood by different authors in four different medieval centuries and locales: Gottschalk, a controversial 9th-century monk from Germany; the champions of the Benedictine Reform in England in the 10th century; the 12th-century aristocratic Benedictine world of Hildegard of Bingen; and in 13th-century Spain, the lay poet Gonzalo de Berceo, who was associated with the abbey of St. Millán de Cogolla, and praised the humility of Santo Domingo de Silos in his poetic life of the saint. The session will also consider whether humility was good for the monks and nuns studied. Hugh B. Feiss
CONGRESS CANCELED Humility among Medieval Benedictines: What Was It and Was It Good for Them?
Fetzer 1040
Humility is the character trait most referenced and praised by Benedictine authors. Humility is very difficult to define and perhaps no easier to live. The papers in this session investigate how humility was understood by different authors in four different medieval centuries and locales: Gottschalk, a controversial 9th-century monk from Germany; the champions of the Benedictine Reform in England in the 10th century; the 12th-century aristocratic Benedictine world of Hildegard of Bingen; and in 13th-century Spain, the lay poet Gonzalo de Berceo, who was associated with the abbey of St. Millán de Cogolla, and praised the humility of Santo Domingo de Silos in his poetic life of the saint. The session will also consider whether humility was good for the monks and nuns studied. Hugh B. Feiss