Thursday

6:15-6:30 P.M.
Gert MELVILLE (Eichstätt/Dresden):
Welcome and Introduction

6:30-7:30 P.M. – Keynote Address
Jacques DALARUN (Paris):
Peter Abelard, Historian of the Female Religious Life Reception
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Friday

I. GENESIS: EARLY PHASE OF FEMALE ASCETICISM IN LATE ANTIQUITY (4TH C) –
Chair: André VAUCHEZ (Paris)

9:00-9:50 A.M.
Claudia RAPP (Los Angeles):
The Foundations of Monasticism in Egypt: The End of the Hagiographical Paradigm

9:50-10:40 A.M.
Georg JENAL (Köln):
Frühe Formen der weiblichen vita religiosa im lateinischen Westen (4. Jh.)

Coffee

II. FOUNDATIONS OF REGULAR LIFE IN THE 5TH AND 6TH C.: FEMALE MONASTIC COMMUNITIES IN GALLIA AND IRELAND –
Chair: Cordula NOLTE (Bremen)

11:10 A.M.-12:00 P.M.
Albrecht DIEM (Syracuse):
Frankish Monasticism: A Unisex Experiment?
Break

2:30-3:20 P.M.
Stephanie HAARLÄNDER (Mainz):
Innumerabiles populi de utroque sexu confluentes ...: Klöster für Männer und Frauen im frühmittelalterlichen Irland

3:20-4:10 P.M.
Gisela MUSCHIOL (Bonn):
Religion, Alltag, Politik. Iro-fränkische Frauenklöster in der Merowingerzeit

Coffee

III. ANGLO-SAXON AND FRANKISH FEMALE MONASTICISM IN THE 7TH AND 8TH C.
Chair: Anne MÜLLER (Eichstätt)

4:40-5:30 P.M.
Sarah FOOT (Oxford):
Flores ecclesiae: Women and Early Anglo-Saxon Monasticism

6:00-7:00 P.M. – Public Evening Lecture, in presence of the Magnus Cancellarius, Bischof Dr. Gregor Maria Hanke OSB
Stefan WEINFURTER (Heidelberg):
„Überall unsere heiligste Mutter Walpurga“ – Visionen, Mythos und Wirkkraft einer europäischen Heiligen

Dinner at the restaurant “Krone”
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Saturday

IV. LOMBARD AND CAROLINGIAN NUNNERIES IN THE 8TH AND 9TH C.
Chair: Roberto RUSCONI (Roma)

9:00-9:50 A.M.
Giancarlo ANDENNA (Milano):
San Salvatore di Brescia e la scelta religiosa delle donne aristocratiche tra età longobarda ed età franca

9:50-10:40 A.M.
Thomas SCHILP (Dortmund):
Eine Norm der Regellosigkeit? Norm und Wirklichkeit der Institutio sanctimonialium Aquisgranensis (816)

Coffee

11:10 A.M.-12:00 P.M.

Katrinette BODARWÉ (Bad Abbach):
Eine Männerregel für Frauen: Die Adaption der Benediktregel vom 9. bis 10. Jh.

Break

V. FEMALE COMMUNITIES IN THE REFORM CONGREGATIONS OF THE 10TH AND 11TH C.
Chair: Anne-Marie HELVÉTIUS (Paris)

2:30-3:20 P.M.
Marco STOFFELLA (Venedig/Paderborn):
Tuscan Female Communities in the High Middle Ages

3:20-4:10 P.M.
Hedwig RÖCKELEIN (Göttingen):
Frauen im Umkreis von Cluny, Hirsau und St. Blasien

Coffee

VI. PERSPECTIVES: FOUNDATIONS OF THE NEW RELIGIOUS ORDERS FOR WOMEN IN THE 12TH C.
Chair: Brian GOLDING (Southampton)

4:40-5:30 P.M.
Franz FELTEN (Mainz):
Abwehr – Zuneigung – Pflichtgefühl: Reaktionen der Zisterzienser auf den Wunsch religiöser Frauen zisterziensisch zu leben

5:30-6:20 P.M.
Bruce L. VENARDE (Pittsburgh):
Robert of Abrissel and Women’s vita religiosa: Looking Back and Ahead

Dinner at the restaurant “Trompete”