Foundations, Re-foundations, and Failed Foundations: The Challenges of Establishing a Monastic Community
Presider: Alison Locke Perchuck (Occidental College)
John B. Wickstrom (Kalamazoo College), "The Many Lives of a Monastic Cult Center: The Abbey of Glanfeuil from A.D. 830 to 1130"
Kathryn L. Jasper (University of California, Berkeley), "A Reforming Network: Peter Damian and the Congregation of Fonte Avellana, 1043-1072"
Michelle Herder (Cornell College), "The Troubles of Vilanera: A Failed Monastic Foundation in the 14th Century"
Nina Chichinadze (Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia), "The Miracle-Working Icon of the Transfiguration from Zarzma: Monastic Dimensions"
Competing Visions of the Religious Life in the Later Middle Ages
Presider: James D. Mixson (University of Alabama)
Damian Zurro (University of Notre Dame), "By Their Boots You Shall Know Them: The Lay Brother Revolt at Schönau and the Problem of Monastic Unity"
Sherri Franks Johnson (University of California, Riverside), "Alms to Mendicant and Monastic Houses in the Statutes of Medieval Bologna"
Michelle Garceau (College of Charleston; visiting scholar, University of Washington), "A Case of Competition? The Cults of Bernat Calbó (d. 1243, bishop of Vic) and Ramon de Penyafort, OP (d. 1275)"
Cynthia Turner Camp (University of Georgia), "Augustine the Hermit or Augustine the Canon? The Fraternal Hagiography of Osbern Bokenham"
For further information, please contact Communis at monasticstudies(at)gmail.com
If you are attending the Congress, you are also invited to attend the Communis business meeting on Thursday, May 10 at 5:15 p.m. (room location TBA).
