Monastic Studies

Orderic Vitalis: New perspectives on the historian and his world (Call for papers)

by Daniel Roach

9-11 April 2013, St John’s College, University of Durham

Call for papers
Orderic Vitalis:
New Perspectives on the Historian and His World

(9-11 April... more Call for papers
Orderic Vitalis:
New Perspectives on the Historian and His World

(9-11 April 2013, St John’s College, University of Durham)

The organising committee of the Durham University Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies conference 'Orderic Vitalis: New Perspectives on the historian and his world' invite abstracts from prospective speakers. This event, funded by the Durham University IMRS, will provide a forum for the dissemination of new research into the life and works of the monastic scholar, Orderic Vitalis. With plans already in place to publish a 'companion' volume on Orderic, this conference will aim to re-invigorate existing work and open new lines of research around a figure whose legacy has proven vital to scholars of the Anglo-Norman world.

While the conference welcomes papers on a wide scope of topics, we particularly invite abstracts for papers relating to the following areas:

•The manuscript history of Orderic's Historia ecclesiastica.

•Orderic's scholarly and scribal career away from the Historia ecclesiastica.

•Orderic’s travels, administrative activities, and studies away from Saint-Évroul.

•Orderic’s world view and his networks of knowledge-exchange and transfer.

•The 'rediscovery' of the Historia ecclesiastica by early modern audiences, and Orderic's subsequent influence on the development of Anglo-Norman studies.

Prospective speakers are invited to submit abstracts of between 250-300 words, and should also include their contact details (name, affiliation, e-mail address). The deadline for submissions is 1 September 2012. Limited bursaries towards travel costs will be offered to postgraduate speakers. If you wish to apply for one of these, please indicate this when submitting an abstract.

For further information about Orderic Vitalis: New perspectives on the historian and his world or to submit an abstract, please email Charlie Rozier, at: c.c.rozier@durham.ac.uk or Dan Roach at: dr229@exeter.ac.uk, or visit:
www.dur.ac.uk/imrs/conferences/orderic_vitalis/

Once Again on the Asceticon of Abba Isaiah

by Alin Suciu

Documenti storici sulla “abbazia” di San Michele di Cervignano

by Gabriele Caiazza

published in: Michele, il guerriero celeste. L’Abbazia di S. Michele Arcangelo di Cervignano del Friuli. La storia, lo scavo, il culto, atti del convegno (Cervignano del Friuli, 28-29 settembre 2008), Cervignano del Friuli (UD) 2010, pp. 188-217

The monograph "Michael, the celestial warrior. The Abbey of St. Michael the Archangel in Cervignano of Friuli.... more The monograph "Michael, the celestial warrior. The Abbey of St. Michael the Archangel in Cervignano of Friuli. The history, the digging, the worship" - published in 2010 - contains the proceedings of the homonymous conference held in Cervignano (Udine) at the end of September 2008 on the initiative of the Aquileia Archaeological Group. On pages 188-217, the author of the essay "Historical documents on the 'Abbey' of St. Michael of Cervignano" analyzes the (few) testimonies related to the michaelic 'monasterium' riverside Ausa, the "castrum Ciruiganum" and the surrounding 'silva', the "villa de Siruiana", the 'centa' encircling the 'plebs' with its 'platea', and the "Insula Cirvignani"; also talking about a possible mention of that 'monasterium' in the eighth century, about the ancient (bell) tower, about the presumed "little church" of the eleventh century, about the remains of mosaic floors, about the ambiguities of the term 'monasterium' before the twelfth century and finally about the main stages in the history of the local 'pieve' of St. Michael the Archangel

Nel 2010 è stata data alle stampe la monografia "Michele, il guerriero celeste. L’Abbazia di S. Michele Arcangelo di Cervignano del Friuli. La storia, lo scavo, il culto", contenente gli atti del convegno omonimo svoltosi a Cervignano (Udine) alla fine di settembre del 2008 su iniziativa del Gruppo Archeologico di Aquileia. Alle pagine 188-217, trova spazio il saggio "Documenti storici sulla 'abbazia' di San Michele di Cervignano": in esso l’autore analizza le (poche) testimonianze relative al 'monasterium' micaelitico in riva al fiume Ausa, al "castrum Ciruiganum" e alla 'silva' circostante, alla "villa de Siruiana", alla 'centa' attorniante la 'plebs' con la 'platea' antistante, e alla "Insula Cirvignani"; trattando pure dell’eventuale citazione del 'monasterium' nell’VIII sec., dell’antica torre (campanaria), dell’ipotizzata "chiesetta" dell’XI sec., dei resti musivi pavimentali, della non univocità del termine 'monasterium' prima del XII sec. e infine delle principali fasi della storia della locale 'pieve' di San Michele Arcangelo

`De Hof' Een bezit van klooster Echternach. Een archeologische opgraving van sporen uit de IJzertijd en de Volle Middeleeuwen op het plangebied `Neerakker'te Bakel, gemeente Gemert-Bakel (N.-Br.)

by adrie ufkes

published in ARC-Publicaties 204, 2010, www.arcbv.nl

report on the results of an extensive excavation in the southeastern part of The Netherlands. Two yards with houses... more report on the results of an extensive excavation in the southeastern part of The Netherlands. Two yards with houses and outbuildings date from the Iron Age. Around 1150 AD. the monastry of Echternach established a grange here, consisting of a large moated site and five surrounding farms, where tax in kind was collected and transported further. The grange is abandoned around 1250. The youngest finds are 12 unexploded British bombs, dropped in 1944.

Os filhos e “afilhados” de São Francisco de Assis: a construção da identidade religiosa e do parentesco da família franciscana

by Antonio Pontes Filho

Vita quotidiana in un monastero buddhista Soto Zen. La via di un giorno solo

by Pietro Piro

Testo originale: Quaderni dell’Istituto Italiano Zen Soto, Fidenza 2005, p. 35. Leggermente modificato nel Febbraio 2012.

Report of daily life in a Soto Zen Buddhist monastery. Wording of rites, prayers, work, meditation.

La vita... more Report of daily life in a Soto Zen Buddhist monastery. Wording of rites, prayers, work, meditation.

La vita in un monastero Zen, vista da fuori, può apparire ripetitiva, priva di svago e insensata. Dentro il monastero, non si pensa che a cogliere la bellezza della vita in ogni minimo dettaglio. Per un attimo, durante la ripetizione di un rituale, l’ho visto ripetersi per migliaia di anni prima e dopo di noi da uomini che non sono più, e da uomini che ancora non sono. Ho provato un brivido di leggerezza. Mi sono sentito un puro attimo. È stato come respirare il profumo della libertà.

"La dottrina del Buddha non ha alcuna utilità. Non è nient’altro che le faccende di tutti i giorni: vestirsi e mangiare, fare i propri bisogni e, sé si è stanchi, coricarsi e dormire".

Rinzai Gigen

All’ombra dei Luoghi Santi: il monachesimo di Palestina in epoca bizantina e l'esperienza di Gaza

by Lorenzo Perrone

All’ombra dei Luoghi Santi: il monachesimo di Palestina in epoca bizantina e l'esperienza di Gaza, in: Il deserto di Gaza: Barsanufio, Giovanni e Doroteo. Atti dell’XI Convegno ecumenico internazionale di spiritualità ortodossa, sezione bizantina. Bose, 14-16 settembre 2003, a cura di Sabino CHIALÀ e Lisa CREMASCHI, Edizioni Qiqajon, Comunità di Bose 2004, pp. 23-50.

New ideas expressed in old words: The Regula Donati on female monastic life and monastic spirituality

by Albrecht Diem

Viator 43:1 (2012), pp. 1-38.

This article provides an extensive analysis of the Regula Donati, a rule for nuns written around 650. It compares the... more This article provides an extensive analysis of the Regula Donati, a rule for nuns written around 650. It compares the Rule with the Regula Benedicti in order to gain insights into monastic life and practice in 7th-century Francia and and into the spirituality and monastic theology within the 'Hiberno-Frankish' monastic movement. It discusses monastic concepts of space, the body, confession, discipline and hierarchy.

Cluny at Fynystere: One Use, Three Fragments

by Manuel Pedro Ferreira

in: Terence Bailey & László Dobszay (eds.), Studies in Medieval Chant and Liturgy in Honour of David Hiley, Ottawa - Budapest: The Institute of Mediaeval Music / Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Institute for Musicology), 2007, pp. 179-228.
Posted by kind permission of: The Institute of Mediaeval Music http://www.medievalmusic.ca
Portuguese translation: "Cluny no Cabo do Mundo: um costume, três fragmentos", in M. P. Ferreira, Aspectos da Música Medieval no Ocidente Peninsular, vol. II, Lisboa: IN-CM, 2010, pp. 83-118.

The influence of Cluny on Galician and Portuguese monasticism in the period 1100-1300, through direct foundation or... more The influence of Cluny on Galician and Portuguese monasticism in the period 1100-1300, through direct foundation or liturgical emulation, is assessed on the basis of the Costumary of Pombeiro (MS Oporto, BPM 578) and of three liturgical fragments with music (Braga AD, frags. 24, 169; Lisboa, TT, S.Pedro de Pedroso mç 43, nº5). Topics include rubrics for the blessing and imposition of the ashes, Communion variants, rare Alleluias, and De Regum antiphons series.

Agamben et la très haute pauvreté franciscaine : "le droit de n'avoir aucun droit"

by Christophe Leblanc

A post on my blog

Le franciscanisme est la tentative de réaliser une vie et une pratique humaine absolument en dehors des déterminations... more Le franciscanisme est la tentative de réaliser une vie et une pratique humaine absolument en dehors des déterminations du droit.

Liturgie und Lebenswirklichkeit. Die spätmittelalterliche Kultur der Lüneburger Klöster, in: Heimatkalender Uelzen 79 (2011), 47–60

by Linda Maria Koldau

„Bibel og liturgi som verdensbilledets fundament – litteratur, kunst og music i senmiddelalderlige kvindeklostre”, in: Middelalderens Verden: Verdensbilledet, tænkningen, rummet og religionen, ed. Ole Høiris & Per Ingesman, Aarhus 2010, 225–242 • “Why Submarines? Interdisciplinary Approaches to a Cultural Myth of War”, in: Journal of War and Culture Studies 4 (2011), 65–78

by Linda Maria Koldau

„Scherzhafte Lieder, ernsthafte Themen. Humor, Satire und Erotik im Klosterschrifttum des Spätmittelalters“, in: Musik und Humor. Scherz, Satire, Ironie und tiefere Bedeutung in der Musik, Fs. Wolfram Steinbeck zum 60. Geburtstag, ed. Hartmut Hein & Fabian Kolb, Laaber: Laaber-Verlag, 2010 (= Spektrum der Musik 9), 33–57

by Linda Maria Koldau

„Klösterliches Liedgut und christliche Hausmütter. Frauen als Vermittlerinnen christlicher Lehre anhand des geistlichen Liedes“, in: Das Geschlecht des Glaubens. Religiöse Kulturen Europas zwischen Mittelalter und Moderne, ed. Monika Mommertz & Claudia Opitz-Belakhal, Frankfurt 2008, 71–97

by Linda Maria Koldau

„Maria in den Frauenliederbüchern des 15. Jahrhunderts“, in: Modell Maria. Beiträge der Vortragsreihen Gender Studies 2004–2006 an der Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg, ed. Martina Bick, Beatrix Borchard, Katharina Hottmann & Krista Warnke, Hamburg 2007, 133–153

by Linda Maria Koldau

„‚Chiara di nome, mà più di merito‘: Chiara Margarita Cozzolani, benediktinische Komponistin des 17. Jahrhunderts“, in: Annäherung an sieben Komponistinnen, ed. Clara Mayer, Kassel 2000, 133–161; extended version in: VivaVoce, Oct. and Dec. 2000, 2–7 and 2–13

by Linda Maria Koldau

Liturgie und Lebenswirklichkeit. Die spätmittelalterliche Kultur der Lüneburger Klöster

by Linda Maria Koldau

Agamben : De la très haute pauvreté, règles et forme de vie

by Christophe Leblanc

A post on my blog

Ce n’est pas la règle de vie qui créé la forme de vie, c’est plutôt la forme de vie qui créé la règle de vie Ce n’est pas la règle de vie qui créé la forme de vie, c’est plutôt la forme de vie qui créé la règle de vie

Materiali di Studio dal Sära’ē (Eritrea): le istituzioni monastiche e la struttura della proprietà fondiaria

by Alessandro Bausi

“Africa” (Roma), 48 (1993), pp. 446-463 (in collaboration with Irma Taddia and Gianfrancesco Lusini)

Eritrean Monastic Institutions as “Lieux de Mémoire” and Source of History

by Alessandro Bausi

“Africa” (Roma), 50/2 (1995) (in collaboration with Irma Taddia and Gianfrancesco Lusini), pp. 265-276