{"id":1710,"date":"2017-07-05T22:05:15","date_gmt":"2017-07-06T02:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yvonneseale.org\/?p=1710"},"modified":"2017-12-19T22:35:36","modified_gmt":"2017-12-20T03:35:36","slug":"gendered-perspectives-on-monastic-reform-i-iv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yvonneseale.org\/blog\/2017\/07\/05\/gendered-perspectives-on-monastic-reform-i-iv\/","title":{"rendered":"Gendered Perspectives on Monastic Reform I-IV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This recap of four sessions on gender and monastic reform in the Middle Ages at the International Medieval Congress, July 2017\u2014#s1030, #s1130, #s1230, #s1330\u2014was originally published at Storify until that service closed down<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Recent years have seen tremendous progress in the study of how institutional, liturgical, and spiritual reform was planned, debated, implemented, and challenged in monastic communities of the medieval period. This includes a significant amount of research on gender aspects of monastic culture, and on male-female relations in the context of women&#8217;s monasticism: yet so far, discussions for distinct periods have rarely intersected. These four sessions sought to address this lack of cross-temporal debate.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Today at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/imc2017?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#imc2017<\/a> I am going to reform &#8211; so see you at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/s1030?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#s1030<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/s1130?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#s1130<\/a> on gender &amp; monastic reform!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Magistra et Mater (@magistraetmater) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/magistraetmater\/status\/882493080426999811?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 5, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><b>Session 1030: Gendered Perspectives on Monastic Reform, I: Early Medieval Transformations<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The first speaker was <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.univ-paris8.fr\/histoire\/?page_id=26\">Anne-Marie Helv\u00e9tius<\/a> on &#8220;Reforming Male and Female Communities in Merovingian Gaul.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Helv\u00e9tius: Religious women more often sanctimoniales than monachae b\/c more emphasis on virginity in their ID <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/s1030?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#s1030<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/imc2017?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#imc2017<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Yvonne Seale (@yvonneseale) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yvonneseale\/status\/882512547756335104?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 5, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"ro\" dir=\"ltr\">Helv\u00e9tius: Main familial foundations in Merovingian Gail were double or female communities <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/s1030?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#s1030<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/imc2017?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#imc2017<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Yvonne Seale (@yvonneseale) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yvonneseale\/status\/882513004482396160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 5, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Helv\u00e9tius: Religious women&#39;s renunciation of world therefore much more about chastity\/giving up possibility of women than <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/s1030?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#s1030<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/imc2017?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#imc2017<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Yvonne Seale (@yvonneseale) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yvonneseale\/status\/882513250918838273?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 5, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Helv\u00e9tius: shutting selves off entirely; Merovingian religious women remain more active in the world than male counterparts <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/s1030?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#s1030<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/imc2017?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#imc2017<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Yvonne Seale (@yvonneseale) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yvonneseale\/status\/882513492732936192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 5, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Helv\u00e9tius: Vita of Radegund shows many nuns more keen to take part of Mary than Martha? Not keen on manual labour! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/s1030?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#s1030<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/imc2017?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#imc2017<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zJ8SHCtucz\">pic.twitter.com\/zJ8SHCtucz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Yvonne Seale (@yvonneseale) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yvonneseale\/status\/882514116958703617?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 5, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Helv\u00e9tius: Though not exclusively female practice, cult of Holy Cross more often found in women&#39;s comms <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/s1030?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#s1030<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/imc2017?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#imc2017<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Yvonne Seale (@yvonneseale) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yvonneseale\/status\/882515258308526081?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 5, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The next speaker was Albrecht Diem on &#8220;Enclosure Re-Opened: Gender and Sacred Space in Early Medieval Monasticism&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Diem: Looking at the &quot;Regula cuiusdam ad virgines&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8ztPpeUyOY\">https:\/\/t.co\/8ztPpeUyOY<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/s1030?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#s1030<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/imc2017?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#imc2017<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Yvonne Seale (@yvonneseale) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yvonneseale\/status\/882516474925129728?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 5, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Diem: Can&#39;t be read as a stand-alone text\u2014Columbanian update in response to Caesarius of Arles? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/s1030?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#s1030<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/imc2017?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#imc2017<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Yvonne Seale (@yvonneseale) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yvonneseale\/status\/882516667099738114?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 5, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Diem: Can&#39;t project Carolingian org of sacred space back onto Merovingian past; diff. theological &amp; pragmatic considerations <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/s1030?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#s1030<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/imc2017?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#imc2017<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Yvonne Seale (@yvonneseale) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yvonneseale\/status\/882517732473876480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 5, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Diem: Regula Benedicti is vague\/flexible in how it deals with space, whereas Caesarius v explicit re: enclosure <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/s1030?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#s1030<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/imc2017?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#imc2017<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Yvonne Seale (@yvonneseale) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yvonneseale\/status\/882518164969488385?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 5, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Diem: Caesarius doesn&#39;t present enclosure as ascetic for women\u2014it&#39;s supposed to make them happy <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/s1030?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#s1030<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/imc2017?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#imc2017<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Yvonne Seale (@yvonneseale) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yvonneseale\/status\/882518689014304768?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 5, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Diem: Female communities not just mirror images of male re: regulae, but rather places of theological experimentation <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/s1030?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#s1030<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/imc2017?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#imc2017<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Yvonne Seale (@yvonneseale) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yvonneseale\/status\/882520754729910272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 5, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The last speaker in the session was <a href=\"http:\/\/histoire.umontreal.ca\/repertoire-departement\/vue\/blennemann-gordon\/\">Gordon Blennemann<\/a> on &#8220;Who Has the Fairest Prayers of Them All?: Gendered Transformations of Monastic Liturgy in the Early Medieval West.<b>&#8220;<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Blennemann: Focusing on this folio from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/laBnF?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@laBnF<\/a> MS lat. 12048 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/t2TmgM1uft\">https:\/\/t.co\/t2TmgM1uft<\/a> &amp; its depiction of Mary w\/ authority <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/s1030?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#s1030<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/imc2017?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#imc2017<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OKpIEwp2BE\">pic.twitter.com\/OKpIEwp2BE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Yvonne Seale (@yvonneseale) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yvonneseale\/status\/882522193942413312?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 5, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Blennemann: Inadequate to link quantitative diffs between male &amp; female comms simply to growing importance of Mass <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/s1030?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#s1030<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/imc2017?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#imc2017<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Yvonne Seale (@yvonneseale) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yvonneseale\/status\/882522829329235968?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 5, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Blennemann: Mass not only mode of liturgical intercession &amp; memorial; nuns had access to other modes <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/s1030?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#s1030<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/imc2017?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#imc2017<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Yvonne Seale (@yvonneseale) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yvonneseale\/status\/882523226726957060?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 5, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><b>Session 1130: Gendered Perspectives on Monastic Reform, II: Establishing Gendered Realities in the High Middle Ages<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The first speaker was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arts.kuleuven.be\/middeleeuwen\/english\/staff\/jirki-thibaut\">Jirki Thibaut<\/a> on &#8220;<b>&#8216;<\/b>Canonicae vivere, claustra tenere&#8217;: The Negotiation of Reform in Female Monastic Communities in 10th-Century Saxony.<b>&#8220;<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Jirki_Thibaut?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Jirki_Thibaut<\/a>: Need for fundamental re-evaluation of attitudes of female religious towards monastic reform <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/s1130?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#s1130<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/imc2017?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#imc2017<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Yvonne Seale (@yvonneseale) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yvonneseale\/status\/882545230968389632?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 5, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Jirki_Thibaut?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Jirki_Thibaut<\/a>: Focus today on Quedlinburg, ca. 1000, to see how women there responded to reform initiatives <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/s1130?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#s1130<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/imc2017?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#imc2017<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AEaL2B1RjD\">pic.twitter.com\/AEaL2B1RjD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Yvonne Seale (@yvonneseale) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yvonneseale\/status\/882545978938707968?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 5, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Jirki_Thibaut?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Jirki_Thibaut<\/a>: Women of Quedlinburg not happy with Henry II&#39;s reform attempts; saw as despoliation <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/s1130?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#s1130<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/imc2017?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#imc2017<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Yvonne Seale (@yvonneseale) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yvonneseale\/status\/882546787646672897?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 5, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Jirki_Thibaut?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Jirki_Thibaut<\/a>: Yet this shouldn&#39;t be read\u2014as has sometimes been\u2014that women religious were hostile to spiritual correction <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/s1130?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#s1130<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/imc2017?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#imc2017<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Yvonne Seale (@yvonneseale) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yvonneseale\/status\/882547096179671040?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 5, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Jirki_Thibaut?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Jirki_Thibaut<\/a>: Quedlinburg had close assoc w\/ Saxon branch of Ottonian family \u2192 accession of Henry II problematic for nuns <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/s1130?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#s1130<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/imc2017?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#imc2017<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Yvonne Seale (@yvonneseale) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yvonneseale\/status\/882548561820495872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 5, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Jirki_Thibaut?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Jirki_Thibaut<\/a>: Mismatch in power relation networks between Quedlinburg &amp; Henry II <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/s1130?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#s1130<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/imc2017?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#imc2017<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Yvonne Seale (@yvonneseale) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yvonneseale\/status\/882548989886857216?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 5, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The second speaker was <a href=\"http:\/\/pimic.eu\/pimic-greer\/\">Sarah Greer<\/a>, who spoke on &#8220;Sophia the Proud?: Gender and Imperial Identity in the Gandersheim Conflict.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sarahlgreer?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@sarahlgreer<\/a>: Was personality of Sophia, abbess of Gandersheim (R) cause of conflict w\/ bishops or was it her imperial ID? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/s1130?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#s1130<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/imc2017?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#imc2017<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/q1XPUCvQUb\">pic.twitter.com\/q1XPUCvQUb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Yvonne Seale (@yvonneseale) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yvonneseale\/status\/882551438030893057?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 5, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sarahlgreer?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@sarahlgreer<\/a>: Who gets to veil Sophia sparks off a series of contentious &amp; increasingly bitter debates between bishops <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/s1130?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#s1130<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/imc2017?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#imc2017<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Yvonne Seale (@yvonneseale) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yvonneseale\/status\/882551752985374720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 5, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sarahlgreer?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@sarahlgreer<\/a>: S&#39;s career shows problems could arise for woman highlighting political ID b\/c raised polit&#39;l stakes for comm <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/s1130?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#s1130<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/imc2017?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#imc2017<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Yvonne Seale (@yvonneseale) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yvonneseale\/status\/882554873342046212?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 5, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sarahlgreer?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@sarahlgreer<\/a>: Plus could cause tensions w\/in community\u2014where does loyalty of imperial abbess lie? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/s1130?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#s1130<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/imc2017?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#imc2017<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Yvonne Seale (@yvonneseale) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yvonneseale\/status\/882555137172152321?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 5, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The third speaker was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/dr-tracy-collins-633084a\/?ppe=1\">Tracy Collins<\/a>, who gave a paper entitled &#8220;Transforming Women Religious?: 12th-Century Church Reform and the Archaeology of Female Monasticism in Medieval Ireland.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Collins: Zenith of female monasticism in early medieval Ireland continued to be 7thC; spectrum of size\/coherence <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/s1130?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#s1130<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/imc2017?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#imc2017<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Yvonne Seale (@yvonneseale) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yvonneseale\/status\/882556651697471488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 5, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Collins: V. difficult to find women religious in Irish archaeological record before intro of continental orders <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/s1130?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#s1130<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/imc2017?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#imc2017<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Yvonne Seale (@yvonneseale) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yvonneseale\/status\/882557010126012416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 5, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Collins: Arch. evidence shows that Irish nunneries had multiplicity of reforms. 65+ sites known <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/s1130?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#s1130<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/imc2017?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#imc2017<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Yvonne Seale (@yvonneseale) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yvonneseale\/status\/882557997360263168?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 5, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Collins: 50%+ of medieval Irish nunneries founded in 12thC <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/s1130?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#s1130<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/imc2017?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#imc2017<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Yvonne Seale (@yvonneseale) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yvonneseale\/status\/882558633988542464?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 5, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Collins: Killone Abbey, Clare, is best preserved 12thC Irish nunnery <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/s1130?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#s1130<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/imc2017?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#imc2017<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/omgeI0Ni8F\">pic.twitter.com\/omgeI0Ni8F<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Yvonne Seale (@yvonneseale) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yvonneseale\/status\/882560513875611648?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 5, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><b>Session 1230: Gendered Perspectives on Monastic Reform, III: Negotiating Communal Identities, 1050-1250<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I was the first speaker, presenting, &#8220;&#8216;Concerning the Sisters Who Persist in Their Stubbornness&#8217;: Gender and the Abbot Gervais&#8217;s Programme of Reform for the Premonstratensian Order.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The second speaker was <a href=\"http:\/\/research.flw.ugent.be\/en\/sara.moens\">Sara Moens<\/a>, whose talk was called, &#8220;&#8216;Moniales incorporatae sunt&#8217;: The Role of the Bishop and Abbots in Institutionalizing Female Religious Fervor in Li\u00e8ge in the 13th Century.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Moens: Focusing on Hugues of Pierrepont &amp; his involvement with female Cistercian communities <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/s1230?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#s1230<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/imc2017?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#imc2017<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PU1CyMqO3s\">pic.twitter.com\/PU1CyMqO3s<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Yvonne Seale (@yvonneseale) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yvonneseale\/status\/882596615512612864?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 5, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Moens: Examining the bishop&#39;s entourage helps explain his support for female Cistercians: e.g. Jacques de Vitry <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/s1230?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#s1230<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/imc2017?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#imc2017<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Yvonne Seale (@yvonneseale) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yvonneseale\/status\/882597294201352198?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 5, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Moens: Didn&#39;t attach great importance to formal recognition of these female communities by the Cistercian General Chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/s1230?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#s1230<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/imc2017?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#imc2017<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Yvonne Seale (@yvonneseale) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yvonneseale\/status\/882598525720289280?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 5, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Moens: Hugues&#39; successor as bishop was his nephew, Jean d&#39;Eppes, who continued his uncle&#39;s support of these houses <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/s1230?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#s1230<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/imc2017?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#imc2017<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Yvonne Seale (@yvonneseale) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yvonneseale\/status\/882598898702929921?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 5, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Moen: Jean maintained his uncle&#39;s entourage, but some diffs; put more stock in formal recognition by Cist. General Chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/s1230?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#s1230<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/imc2017?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#imc2017<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Yvonne Seale (@yvonneseale) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yvonneseale\/status\/882599916161441793?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 5, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Moens: Yet later bishops of Li\u00e8ge like William of Savoy &amp; Robert of Thourotte moved away from Cistercian support #1230 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/imc2017?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#imc2017<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Yvonne Seale (@yvonneseale) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yvonneseale\/status\/882601078331781120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 5, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The last person on the panel was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ed.ac.uk\/history-classics-archaeology\/about-us\/staff-profiles\/profile_tab1_academic.php?uun=kday2&amp;search=1\">Kirsty Day<\/a>, who spoke on &#8220;The Role of Franciscan Women in Transmitting, Developing, and Implementing the Mandates of the Fourth Lateran Council.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.@DrKirstyDay: Begins with look at vita of Anna of Bohemia, claimed as founder of f. Franciscan house at Wroc\u0142aw <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/s1230?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#s1230<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/imc2017?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#imc2017<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/nuntastic?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#nuntastic<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8uxEIbn02N\">pic.twitter.com\/8uxEIbn02N<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Yvonne Seale (@yvonneseale) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yvonneseale\/status\/882602349264613377?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 5, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.@DrKirstyDay: Royal women in Central Europe heavily influenced in their penitential piety by legacy of Elizabeth of Hungary <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/s1230?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#s1230<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/imc2017?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#imc2017<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rpDOG5WpHH\">pic.twitter.com\/rpDOG5WpHH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Yvonne Seale (@yvonneseale) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yvonneseale\/status\/882602973490294784?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 5, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.@DrKirstyDay: Royal &amp; religious IDs combined in those royal women who become nuns; couldn&#39;t leave the world behind them <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/s1230?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#s1230<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/imc2017?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#imc2017<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Yvonne Seale (@yvonneseale) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yvonneseale\/status\/882604263674925056?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 5, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.@DrKirstyDay: e.g. Kinga of Poland becomes Franciscan but retains aspects of royal ID in how she is named <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/s1230?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#s1230<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/imc2017?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#imc2017<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rDunFrxMgY\">pic.twitter.com\/rDunFrxMgY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Yvonne Seale (@yvonneseale) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yvonneseale\/status\/882605123800838144?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 5, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><b>Session 1330: Gendered Perspectives on Monastic Reform, IV: Late Medieval Reflections and Responses<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The first speaker in the final panel was <a href=\"http:\/\/history.cass.anu.edu.au\/people\/julie-hotchin\">Julie Hotchin<\/a>, who looked at &#8220;The Provost as &#8216;Wise Architect&#8217; of Reform: Gender and Material Culture at Ebstorf in the Late 15th Century.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Looking forward to being part of this strand on Gendered Perspectives on Reform, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/s1330?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#s1330<\/a>! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/J95l3alfAT\">https:\/\/t.co\/J95l3alfAT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Julie Hotchin (@JulieHotchin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JulieHotchin\/status\/881229901675802625?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 1, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JulieHotchin?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JulieHotchin<\/a>: focusing on convent chronicle produced by young nun at Ebstorf &amp; how she portrays the comm&#39;s provost <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/s1330?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#s1330<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/imc2017?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#imc2017<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8povYC9feM\">pic.twitter.com\/8povYC9feM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Yvonne Seale (@yvonneseale) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yvonneseale\/status\/882625351565946880?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 5, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JulieHotchin?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JulieHotchin<\/a>: On appt, this provost Matthias von dem Knesbeck carried out building works: new church, walk, kitchen etc <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/s1330?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#s1330<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/imc2017?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#imc2017<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Yvonne Seale (@yvonneseale) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yvonneseale\/status\/882626173817303040?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 5, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JulieHotchin?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JulieHotchin<\/a>: Though the new grille installed had to be modified a few years later\u2014so solid that couldn&#39;t hear through it! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/s1330?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#s1330<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/imc2017?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#imc2017<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Yvonne Seale (@yvonneseale) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yvonneseale\/status\/882626503774810113?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 5, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JulieHotchin?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JulieHotchin<\/a>: Physical changes had not just practical aims but theological ones\u2014incorporate reflection into daily practice <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/s1330?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#s1330<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/imc2017?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#imc2017<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Yvonne Seale (@yvonneseale) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yvonneseale\/status\/882627050103869440?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 5, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is the same Ebstorf that produces the famous map\u2014it occurs to me, is that female rel. provenance often highlighted? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/s1330?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#s1330<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/imc2017?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#imc2017<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/e5rCe2twch\">pic.twitter.com\/e5rCe2twch<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Yvonne Seale (@yvonneseale) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yvonneseale\/status\/882629360213270528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 5, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The day&#8217;s final speaker was <a href=\"https:\/\/georgetown.academia.edu\/JenniferDeVries\">Jennifer De Vries<\/a>, who spoke on, &#8220;Reforming the Semi-Monastic: Beguines and Male Authority in the Late Medieval Low Countries.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">DeVries: Looking at texts like this one from the Sint-Pancras Begijnhof: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ad70BzCMNo\">https:\/\/t.co\/ad70BzCMNo<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/s1330?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#s1330<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/imc2017?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#imc2017<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Yvonne Seale (@yvonneseale) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yvonneseale\/status\/882631822693236736?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 5, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">DeVries: Using beguine rules to get a sense of what definition of &quot;beguine&quot; ID was &amp; how male agents were involved <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/s1330?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#s1330<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/imc2017?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#imc2017<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Yvonne Seale (@yvonneseale) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yvonneseale\/status\/882632414983589890?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 5, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">DeVries: Fragmentary rule from &#39;s-Hertogenbosch may have been written by female head of community herself <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/s1330?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#s1330<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/imc2017?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#imc2017<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Yvonne Seale (@yvonneseale) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yvonneseale\/status\/882634644658810881?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 5, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">DeVries: Looking at these texts provides interesting comparisons with what one would expect post-Council of Vienne <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/s1330?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#s1330<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/imc2017?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#imc2017<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Yvonne Seale (@yvonneseale) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yvonneseale\/status\/882634944102707200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 5, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This recap of four sessions on gender and monastic reform in the Middle Ages at the International Medieval Congress, July 2017\u2014#s1030, #s1130, #s1230, #s1330\u2014was originally &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,33,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conferences-lectures","category-religious-history","category-womens-history"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":54,"url":"https:\/\/yvonneseale.org\/blog\/2013\/07\/15\/plantations\/","url_meta":{"origin":1710,"position":0},"title":"Plantations Amidst Savagery? 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