38th International Congress on Medieval Studies
Thursday,
8 May, 3:30 p.m.
Session 169:
The Construction of Continuity:
Strategies of Stabilization in the Mendicant Orders
Presider: Gert Melville
“Control and Stability through Administrative
Texts: Written Communication within the Franciscan and Dominican Orders in the
13th Century”
“Iconographic Representation of Saints: The Use
of Paintings as Constructions of Continuity within the Mendicant Orders”
“Managing Crises: Institutional
Re-Stabilization of the Mendicant Orders after the Black Death(1347-1350)”
Sponsors:
Franciscan
Institute, St.
Bonaventure University, and Institutionelle Strukturen Religiöser Orden im
Mittelalter(Dresden)