Image credit: historiated initial from a Cistercian Gradual. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
Cistercian Worlds, Day 1 (July 1)
Welcome and keynote presentation (09:30 - 11:00)
Prof. Emilia Jamroziak (University of Leeds): 'Cistercian Studies in the Twenty-first Century and the Journey Ahead’
Session 1 (11:30 - 13:00)
1a: Cistercian Worlds in Portugal I - Worlds in Flux
(1) Jonathan Wilson (NOVA University, Lisbon): ‘The Early Private Documents of Santa Maria de Alcobaça’
(2) Maria João Branco (NOVA University, Lisbon): ‘Canon Law in Alcobaça: A Contradiction in Terms?’
(3) João Luís Fontes and Paulo Lopes (NOVA University, Lisbon): ‘A Failed Project: The Fifteenth-Century Portuguese Launch of the Benedictine Observance’
1b: Cistercian Women: Liturgy, Spirituality and Power
(1) Elizabeth Freeman (School of Humanities, University of Tasmania): 'Medieval Cistercian Nunneries and Their “Outdated” Liturgical and Consuetudines Manuscripts'
(2) Sr. Ana Laura Forastieri, OCSO (Mother of Christ Monastery, Argentina): 'St Gertrude of Helfta, a Cistercian mystic from the thirteenth century'
(3) Julie Hotchin (School of History, Australian National University): 'Negotiating Authority: Cistercian Nuns and their Provosts in Late Medieval Germany'
1c: Socio-Political Worlds and Landscapes
(1) José Antonio López Sabatel (University of Wales Trinity St David): 'Cistercians and peasantry in La Ribeira Sacra (Galicia, Spain)'
(2) Juan A. Prieto Sayagués (Universidad Complutense de Madrid): 'Secular power and the Cistercian Order during the late Middle Ages. Patronage, Abuses and Reforms (c. 1284-1474)'
Session 2 (14:00 - 15:30)
2a: Cistercian Worlds in Portugal II – Manuscripts, Materiality and Content in Late Twelfth Century Portugal
(1) Catarina Fernandes Barreira (Institute for Medieval Studies, NOVA University, Lisbon): ‘Three Books from Alcobaça: A View from the Liturgy’
(2) Conceição Casanova and Catarina Gonçalves (REQUIMTE Lab, School of Science and Technology, NOVA): ‘Bookbinding through Time: Singularity and Regularity in Santa Maria de Alcobaça’
(3) Catarina Miguel, Silvia Bottura-Scardina, and Shatila Algaf (Hercules Lab, University of Évora): ‘Pigments, Paints and Blushes: The Palate of Illumination in early Alcobaça’
2b: Cistercian Thought: Cognition, Law and Philosophy
(1) William North (Carlton College): 'Remaking the Middling Mind: Narrative, Allegory, and Cognitive Reform in the Works of Galand of Reigny'
(2) John Bugbee (University of Virginia): 'How “Gentle” Laws Might Aid Modern Impasses: Bernard’s Precept and Dispensation'
(3) Eduardo Carrero Santamaría (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona): ‘The Ecclesiastica Officia through the Senses: An Approach to the Cistercian Ideal of Staging the Liturgy’
2c: Writing Cistercian Histories; Cistercians Writing History
(1) Gabriele Passabì (Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge): 'Universal chronicle-writing in the Cistercian cloister: the case of the Continuatio Mortui Maris'
(2) Jesse P. Harrington (Cambridge/Independent Scholar): 'Crossing the Rubicon: The Cistercians and Caesar in Aelred of Rievaulx’s Relatio de Standardo'
(3) Jenny Day (University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies): 'Yale’s Heaven: Valle Crucis Abbey in the poems of Gutun Owain'
Session 3 (16:00 - 17:30)
3a: Cistercian Worlds in Portugal III – Cistercian Women’s Houses in the Iberian Far-West
(1) Luís Rêpas (Institute for Medieval Studies, NOVA University Lisbon): ‘The Wives of Christ: Female Cistercian Communities in the Middle Ages’
(2) Catarina Fernandes Barreira, Conceição Casanova, Catarina Miguel (Institute for Medieval Studies, NOVA University Lisbon): ‘Four Centuries of Books, Rituals and Nuns; Lorvão from the Thirteenth to Sixteenth Centuries’
(3) Mário Farelo and Luís Rêpas (Institute for Medieval Studies, NOVA University Lisbon): ‘Visitations and Revelations; Recent Discoveries from the Late Fifteenth Century’
3b: Cistercian Theology
(1) Jack Ford (University College London): 'Healthy Body, Healthy Mind: Eucrasia and sanitas in the Medical Approaches to Affectivity of William of Saint-Thierry and Richard of Saint-Victor’
(2) Rev. Laura Marie Grimes (Hildegard House): 'Summa Theologiae Sapientiae: Gertrud the Great’s Spiritual Exercises as Theological Masterwork'
3c: Cistercians and Others
(1) Antoni Grabowski (The Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History, Warsaw): 'The World Beyond Ours: Cistercians on Outsiders'
(2) Georgie Fitzgibbon (University of Birmingham/British Academy): 'For Fear of the Multitudes: Defining the Boundaries of Sanctity in the Cistercian World'
Online Social Time & Networking (18:00 - 19:00...)
To end a day of fascinating and stimulating papers we invite you to join us for an (optional) hour of relaxed conversation with your fellow conference participants.
End of Day One.
Prof. Emilia Jamroziak (University of Leeds): 'Cistercian Studies in the Twenty-first Century and the Journey Ahead’
Session 1 (11:30 - 13:00)
1a: Cistercian Worlds in Portugal I - Worlds in Flux
(1) Jonathan Wilson (NOVA University, Lisbon): ‘The Early Private Documents of Santa Maria de Alcobaça’
(2) Maria João Branco (NOVA University, Lisbon): ‘Canon Law in Alcobaça: A Contradiction in Terms?’
(3) João Luís Fontes and Paulo Lopes (NOVA University, Lisbon): ‘A Failed Project: The Fifteenth-Century Portuguese Launch of the Benedictine Observance’
1b: Cistercian Women: Liturgy, Spirituality and Power
(1) Elizabeth Freeman (School of Humanities, University of Tasmania): 'Medieval Cistercian Nunneries and Their “Outdated” Liturgical and Consuetudines Manuscripts'
(2) Sr. Ana Laura Forastieri, OCSO (Mother of Christ Monastery, Argentina): 'St Gertrude of Helfta, a Cistercian mystic from the thirteenth century'
(3) Julie Hotchin (School of History, Australian National University): 'Negotiating Authority: Cistercian Nuns and their Provosts in Late Medieval Germany'
1c: Socio-Political Worlds and Landscapes
(1) José Antonio López Sabatel (University of Wales Trinity St David): 'Cistercians and peasantry in La Ribeira Sacra (Galicia, Spain)'
(2) Juan A. Prieto Sayagués (Universidad Complutense de Madrid): 'Secular power and the Cistercian Order during the late Middle Ages. Patronage, Abuses and Reforms (c. 1284-1474)'
Session 2 (14:00 - 15:30)
2a: Cistercian Worlds in Portugal II – Manuscripts, Materiality and Content in Late Twelfth Century Portugal
(1) Catarina Fernandes Barreira (Institute for Medieval Studies, NOVA University, Lisbon): ‘Three Books from Alcobaça: A View from the Liturgy’
(2) Conceição Casanova and Catarina Gonçalves (REQUIMTE Lab, School of Science and Technology, NOVA): ‘Bookbinding through Time: Singularity and Regularity in Santa Maria de Alcobaça’
(3) Catarina Miguel, Silvia Bottura-Scardina, and Shatila Algaf (Hercules Lab, University of Évora): ‘Pigments, Paints and Blushes: The Palate of Illumination in early Alcobaça’
2b: Cistercian Thought: Cognition, Law and Philosophy
(1) William North (Carlton College): 'Remaking the Middling Mind: Narrative, Allegory, and Cognitive Reform in the Works of Galand of Reigny'
(2) John Bugbee (University of Virginia): 'How “Gentle” Laws Might Aid Modern Impasses: Bernard’s Precept and Dispensation'
(3) Eduardo Carrero Santamaría (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona): ‘The Ecclesiastica Officia through the Senses: An Approach to the Cistercian Ideal of Staging the Liturgy’
2c: Writing Cistercian Histories; Cistercians Writing History
(1) Gabriele Passabì (Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge): 'Universal chronicle-writing in the Cistercian cloister: the case of the Continuatio Mortui Maris'
(2) Jesse P. Harrington (Cambridge/Independent Scholar): 'Crossing the Rubicon: The Cistercians and Caesar in Aelred of Rievaulx’s Relatio de Standardo'
(3) Jenny Day (University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies): 'Yale’s Heaven: Valle Crucis Abbey in the poems of Gutun Owain'
Session 3 (16:00 - 17:30)
3a: Cistercian Worlds in Portugal III – Cistercian Women’s Houses in the Iberian Far-West
(1) Luís Rêpas (Institute for Medieval Studies, NOVA University Lisbon): ‘The Wives of Christ: Female Cistercian Communities in the Middle Ages’
(2) Catarina Fernandes Barreira, Conceição Casanova, Catarina Miguel (Institute for Medieval Studies, NOVA University Lisbon): ‘Four Centuries of Books, Rituals and Nuns; Lorvão from the Thirteenth to Sixteenth Centuries’
(3) Mário Farelo and Luís Rêpas (Institute for Medieval Studies, NOVA University Lisbon): ‘Visitations and Revelations; Recent Discoveries from the Late Fifteenth Century’
3b: Cistercian Theology
(1) Jack Ford (University College London): 'Healthy Body, Healthy Mind: Eucrasia and sanitas in the Medical Approaches to Affectivity of William of Saint-Thierry and Richard of Saint-Victor’
(2) Rev. Laura Marie Grimes (Hildegard House): 'Summa Theologiae Sapientiae: Gertrud the Great’s Spiritual Exercises as Theological Masterwork'
3c: Cistercians and Others
(1) Antoni Grabowski (The Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History, Warsaw): 'The World Beyond Ours: Cistercians on Outsiders'
(2) Georgie Fitzgibbon (University of Birmingham/British Academy): 'For Fear of the Multitudes: Defining the Boundaries of Sanctity in the Cistercian World'
Online Social Time & Networking (18:00 - 19:00...)
To end a day of fascinating and stimulating papers we invite you to join us for an (optional) hour of relaxed conversation with your fellow conference participants.
End of Day One.
Cistercian Worlds, Day 2 (July 2)
Welcome and Keynote Presentation (10:00 – 11:00)
Prof. Constant J. Mews (Centre for Religious Studies, Monash University, Australia): ‘Redefining the Soul in Cistercian Perspective: Reason, Affect and the Path of Music’
Session 4 (11:30 – 12:30)
4a. Cistercian Networks
(1) Ghislain Baury (Le Mans Université): ‘Cistercian Nunneries’ Networks in Castile (12th-13th centuries)’
(2) Laurent Nabias (Centre d’histoire des sociétés Médiévales et Modernes (MéMo), University of Nanterre): ‘The Nobility Networks of the Royal Cistercian Abbey of Chaalis (1180-1250)’
4b. Cistercians and their Eastern Connections
(1) James Cogbill (Worcester College, Oxford): ‘Abbatial authority at Cîteaux and the Theotokos Evergetis’
(2) Youyoung Jung (EHESS, Paris): ‘Cistercians in Byzantium: Another Encounter of East and West’
4c. Cistercian Landscapes
(1) Freya Horsfield (Durham University): ‘The Cistercian Taskscape and Environmental Change’
(2) Victoria Hodgson (University of Bristol): ‘Scottish Cistercian Landscapes: Adapting the Framework’
Session 5 (13:30 – 14:30)
5a. Cistercian Art and Architecture
(1) Valeria Carta (University of Cagliari): ‘The Abbey of Santa Maria di Paulis’
(2) Dario De Cristofaro (Università degli Studi di Firenze): ‘Some Considerations around the XIII-XIV’s Centuries Decoration of Chiaravalle della Colomba (Italy)’
(3) Herbert González Zymla Rites (Complutense University of Madrid): ‘Ceremonies and Architecture in the Monastery of Saint Mary of Piedra’
5b. Cistercians, Illness and Death
(1) Amelia Kennedy (Yale University): ‘Crip Time in the Medieval Monastery: Cistercian Writers on the Time-Scapes of Infirmity, c.1150-1250'
(2) Edmund Wareham (St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford): ‘From this World to the Next: Rituals around Death in South-West German Cistercian Nunneries’
5c. Cistercians and their Patrons
(1) Diana Lucía Gómez-Chacón (Universidad Complutense de Madrid): ‘Cistercian Observance in Late Medieval Castile. The Artistic Patronage of the Founders’ Descendants in the Monastery of Montesión (Toledo)’
(2) Asami Miura (Toyo University): ‘Negotiating with the Neighbor: Helfta and Count Mansfeld at the End of the 13th Century’
Session 6 (15:00 – 16:00)
6a. Worlds of Education
(1) Jacob Doss (University of Texas, Austin): ‘Preparing for their Heavenly Groom: The Role of Ascetic Florilegia in the Moral Formation of New Cistercian Recruits in the Late Twelfth Century’
(2) Emmie Rose Price-Goodfellow (Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York): ‘Keeping up with the Claravallians: The Role of Clairvaux in the Exordium magnum’
(3) Laura Moncion (Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto): 'Recluses in Cistercian Worlds: Inspiration, Community, and Critique'
6b. Cistercian Archives
(1) Lucrezia Signorello (University of Rome La Sapienza): ‘Texts and Context: Readings and Readers in the Roman Monastery of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme'
(2) Ciro Romano (University of Naples): ‘Cistercian Documents in the Naples State Archives’
6c. Northern Cistercian Worlds
(1) Synnøve Midtbø Myking (University of Bergen): ‘Cistercian Manuscripts in Medieval Denmark and Norway: Traces of a European Network’
(2) Thomas Barrows (St Louis University): ‘Furness in the West: Rebellious Cistercians in the Unruly World of the 12th Century Irish Sea’
Roundtable Discussion (16:30-17:30)
To bring the proceedings to a close, please join us for a roundtable discussion. Including researchers across all career stages, this discussion will seek to bring the themes of the conference together.
Roundtable participants: Prof. Janet Burton (University of Wales Trinity Saint David), Dr. Michael Carter (English Heritage), Prof. Emilia Jamroziak (University of Leeds) and Dr. Martha G. Newman (University of Texas, Austin) + invited ECRs and PhDs. Chairs: Emmie Rose Price-Goodfellow (University of York) and Jack Ford (University College London).
Prof. Constant J. Mews (Centre for Religious Studies, Monash University, Australia): ‘Redefining the Soul in Cistercian Perspective: Reason, Affect and the Path of Music’
Session 4 (11:30 – 12:30)
4a. Cistercian Networks
(1) Ghislain Baury (Le Mans Université): ‘Cistercian Nunneries’ Networks in Castile (12th-13th centuries)’
(2) Laurent Nabias (Centre d’histoire des sociétés Médiévales et Modernes (MéMo), University of Nanterre): ‘The Nobility Networks of the Royal Cistercian Abbey of Chaalis (1180-1250)’
4b. Cistercians and their Eastern Connections
(1) James Cogbill (Worcester College, Oxford): ‘Abbatial authority at Cîteaux and the Theotokos Evergetis’
(2) Youyoung Jung (EHESS, Paris): ‘Cistercians in Byzantium: Another Encounter of East and West’
4c. Cistercian Landscapes
(1) Freya Horsfield (Durham University): ‘The Cistercian Taskscape and Environmental Change’
(2) Victoria Hodgson (University of Bristol): ‘Scottish Cistercian Landscapes: Adapting the Framework’
Session 5 (13:30 – 14:30)
5a. Cistercian Art and Architecture
(1) Valeria Carta (University of Cagliari): ‘The Abbey of Santa Maria di Paulis’
(2) Dario De Cristofaro (Università degli Studi di Firenze): ‘Some Considerations around the XIII-XIV’s Centuries Decoration of Chiaravalle della Colomba (Italy)’
(3) Herbert González Zymla Rites (Complutense University of Madrid): ‘Ceremonies and Architecture in the Monastery of Saint Mary of Piedra’
5b. Cistercians, Illness and Death
(1) Amelia Kennedy (Yale University): ‘Crip Time in the Medieval Monastery: Cistercian Writers on the Time-Scapes of Infirmity, c.1150-1250'
(2) Edmund Wareham (St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford): ‘From this World to the Next: Rituals around Death in South-West German Cistercian Nunneries’
5c. Cistercians and their Patrons
(1) Diana Lucía Gómez-Chacón (Universidad Complutense de Madrid): ‘Cistercian Observance in Late Medieval Castile. The Artistic Patronage of the Founders’ Descendants in the Monastery of Montesión (Toledo)’
(2) Asami Miura (Toyo University): ‘Negotiating with the Neighbor: Helfta and Count Mansfeld at the End of the 13th Century’
Session 6 (15:00 – 16:00)
6a. Worlds of Education
(1) Jacob Doss (University of Texas, Austin): ‘Preparing for their Heavenly Groom: The Role of Ascetic Florilegia in the Moral Formation of New Cistercian Recruits in the Late Twelfth Century’
(2) Emmie Rose Price-Goodfellow (Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York): ‘Keeping up with the Claravallians: The Role of Clairvaux in the Exordium magnum’
(3) Laura Moncion (Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto): 'Recluses in Cistercian Worlds: Inspiration, Community, and Critique'
6b. Cistercian Archives
(1) Lucrezia Signorello (University of Rome La Sapienza): ‘Texts and Context: Readings and Readers in the Roman Monastery of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme'
(2) Ciro Romano (University of Naples): ‘Cistercian Documents in the Naples State Archives’
6c. Northern Cistercian Worlds
(1) Synnøve Midtbø Myking (University of Bergen): ‘Cistercian Manuscripts in Medieval Denmark and Norway: Traces of a European Network’
(2) Thomas Barrows (St Louis University): ‘Furness in the West: Rebellious Cistercians in the Unruly World of the 12th Century Irish Sea’
Roundtable Discussion (16:30-17:30)
To bring the proceedings to a close, please join us for a roundtable discussion. Including researchers across all career stages, this discussion will seek to bring the themes of the conference together.
Roundtable participants: Prof. Janet Burton (University of Wales Trinity Saint David), Dr. Michael Carter (English Heritage), Prof. Emilia Jamroziak (University of Leeds) and Dr. Martha G. Newman (University of Texas, Austin) + invited ECRs and PhDs. Chairs: Emmie Rose Price-Goodfellow (University of York) and Jack Ford (University College London).
