Negotiated devotions and performed histories: laywomen in monastic spaces
Susannah Crowder
Two male monasteries – and their roles in the religious observances of laywomen illuminate another facet relationship among gender, devotion, performance Metz. This chapter first revisits Celestine community, deepening findings third by examining institution that housed family chapel Gronnaix burial place Catherine Baudoche. Its spaces reveal a culture was grounded women’s material contributions spiritual needs; contemporary institutional histories construct “edifice” depicts partnership brothers. A second Messine community documents an alternative perspective on role women long-term history-making practice. Through liturgical performance, monastery St-Arnoul had claimed past tied Carolingian-era imperial identity to female sanctity patronage. Gronnaix’s foundation masses at took during decline this narrative, however, when preservation appropriation older traditions lost appeal. In distinct eras, cloistered St-Martin both permeated presence remains devotions sheltered collaborative performances intertwined monastic familial aspirations.
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