Female Monasticism in Italy from 700 to 1100: Family, Power, Memory
Veronica West-Harling
This Monographic Section proposes to study female monasteries in Italy the period 700 1100, focusing on comparing and contrasting those cities covering northern, central southern (Brescia, Venice, Verona, Ravenna, Rome, Benevento Naples). Key elements of this comparison are links nuns abbesses with most powerful royal aristocratic families area, way which these contributed power wealth relative houses. Examining these, as well role memorialisation representation through prayers, relics, patrimonies, will also lead a between various monastic traditions (Lombard, Frankish Carolingian, post Byzantine, Roman) different areas, identification specific features their associations contemporary elites.
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