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<\/a>Thursday<\/strong><\/p>\n Session 8: Transforming Women: Gender and the Creation of the Early Franciscan Tradition<\/em><\/p>\n “Lady Jacopa and Franciscan Mysticism: Completing the Image of Francis as an Alter Christus<\/em>” This paper explored the contested ways in which Jacopa de Settesoli, a follow of Francis of Assisi, was represented in Franciscan historiography and hagiography. Darleen Pryds argued that some Franciscan administrators tried to excise Jacopa’s presence at Francis’ deathbed for reasons of propriety\u2014the official life of Francis, written in 1260, omitted her for instance. However, other accounts did include her, representing her as the Mary Magdalene or the Magi to Francis’ Christ. This, Pryds claimed, allowed for the construction of a more theologically satisfying narrative which paralleled biblical texts more closely, as well as allowing for more pathos and drama.<\/p>\n [Image right: Jacopa de Settesoli, fresco in basilica of St Francis, Assisi. Credit<\/a><\/em>]<\/a><\/p>\n “The Identities of Margherita Colonna in Medieval Rome” Margherita Colonna is a rather obscure figure in Franciscan history. However, Lezlie Knox, drawing on her work on two vitae<\/em> of Margherita’s that are preserved in draft form in a fourteenth century manuscript (Bibl. Casanatense MS 104)\u2014a study which she’s carrying out in conjunction with Sean Field<\/a>\u2014argues that Margherita’s relative obscurity is due more to the fact that her religious identity defies easy categorisation according to modern scholarly interests, and because of medieval tensions that worked against her canonisation, than because she’s unimportant. Margherita seems to have identified more with Francis than with Claire of Assisi, as we might expect if affinity follows gender. In addition, Margherita was a member of the powerful Roman Colonna family, which disagreed internally as to whether she should be allowed to follow a religious vocation\u2014and, it seems, as to whether canonisation should be sought for her. The Colonna were also at odds with the papacy, and so it’s no surprise to find that Margherita fades from Franciscan collective memory after her death.<\/p>\n Anna Campbell contrasted the text of Colette of Corbie’s Constitutions\u2014the “official” face of the Colettine reforms\u2014with an earlier text, the Sentiments<\/em>, drawn up in 1430. Here, Colette’s thoughts on reform are expressed in the vernacular and in a less legal manner. Campbell argues that by comparing the Sentiments, the Constitutions, and Clare of Assisi’s form of life in terms of structure and content, we can more explicitly see how Colette drew on Clare’s ideas during the process of reform.<\/p>\n [Image left: Colette and the pope. From <\/em>vita of Colette of Corbie. Ghent, Bethlehem Convent of the Poor Clares, MS 8<\/em>]<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Session 93: Moving More Online: Strategies and Challenges for Using Technology in the \u201cClassroom\u201d (A Roundtable)<\/em><\/p>\n A roundtable discussion with Kate McGrath<\/a> (Central Connecticut State University); Thomas R. Leek<\/a>, University of Wisconsin\u2013Stevens Point; M\u00e1ire Johnson<\/a>, Elizabethtown College; Andrew Reeves<\/a>, Middle Georgia State College; Valerie Dawn Hampton<\/a>, Western Michigan University\/University of Florida; and April Harper<\/a>, SUNY\u2013Oneonta.<\/p>\n I live-tweeted this roundtable, and you can find those tweets aggregated here in this Storify<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Session 99: Women and Power to 1100 (A Roundtable)<\/em><\/p>\n A roundtable discussion with Julie A. Hofmann<\/a>, Shenandoah University; Jonathan Jarrett,<\/a> Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham; Phyllis G. Jestice<\/a>, College of Charleston; and Martha Rampton<\/a>, Pacific University<\/p>\n Hofmann: Opens by asking if we need to rethink what we think power is before we look at women and power. #s99<\/a> #Kzoo2015<\/a><\/p>\n — Yvonne Seale (@yvonneseale) May 14, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nDarleen Pryds<\/a>, Franciscan School of Theology (Paper read in absentia<\/em>)<\/p>\n
\nLezlie Knox<\/a>, Marquette University<\/p>\n<\/a>“Transforming Clare\u2019s Rule: The Evolution of Colette of Corbie\u2019s Constitutions”
\nAnna Campbell<\/a>, Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Reading<\/p>\n\n