Recent work on Monasticism

Monday 28 January 2008
Lecture Theatre C, Avenue Campus, University of Southampton

10.00am.
Coffee and registration

10.30-12 noon.
Session 1: Monastic life: inside and outside the monastery

  • Peter Clarke (Southampton), ‘Runaway religious and the papal penitentiary in the fifteenth century’
  • Nicholas Karn (Southampton) ‘The letters of Herbert Losinga and the social relations of twelfth-century Benedictines’
  • Liz Eastlake (Winchester) ‘Boxley Abbey in the fourteenth century’
    Chair: Matthew Johnson, Southampton
  • Bella Millett (Southampton) ‘A rule, as it were, for your way of life: regulations for recluses’
    Chair: Ros King, Southampton

12.40-1.20pm.
Lunch (the Avenue café is open for the purchase of sandwiches and hot meals)

1.20-2.50pm.
Session 2: Varieties of life

  • Cate Gunn (Southampton) ‘Viri religiosi. Were canons monks?’
    Barbara Bombi (Kent) ‘General proctors of religious orders: the example of the Teutonic knights’
  • Christopher Woolgar (Southampton) ‘In the bishop’s chamber’
    Chair: tbc

2.50-3.10pm.
Tea

3.10-4.40pm.
Session 3: Environment

  • Alison Gascoigne (Southampton) ‘The monastic town of Ansina in Middle Egypt’
    Cindy Wood (Winchester) ‘The chantries of Winchester cathedral’
    Leonie Hicks (Southampton) ‘Into the wilderness’
    Chair: David Hinton, Southampton


4.40-5.30pm.
Round table discussion Chair: Anne Curry, Southampton

5.30-7.00pm.
Wine reception and book launch (outside Lecture Theatre C)

  • Peter Clarke, The Interdict in the Thirteenth Century: A Question of Collective Guilt (OUP 2007); Leonie Hicks, Religious Life in Normandy 1050-1300: Space, Gender and Social Pressure (Boydell, 2007); Bella Millett, Ancrene Wisse, vol 2 (Early English Text Society, 2007)