A one-day symposium on the theme of “Mendicants on the Margins” will take place at University College Cork on the 27 June 2018. It is organised as part of the IRC-funded project “Spiritual Infrastructure, Space and Society: The Augustinian Friars in Late Medieval Ireland”. Speakers from Ireland and abroad will tackle a variety of aspects relating to the geenral theme on Mendicants on the Margins, from mendicant orders in geographical margins, the lesser-known orders such as the Augustinian friars, female communities and the Franciscan Third Order, to mendicant communities on the margins of the traditional model of urban mendicancy, such as foundations in non-urban environments, and aspects of mendicant studies challenging the traditional historiography of mendicant orders.

Argument

A one-day symposium on the theme of 'Mendicants on the Margins' will take place at University College Cork on the 27 June 2018. It is organised as part of the IRC-funded project 'Spiritual Infrastructure, Space and Society: The Augustinian Friars in Late Medieval Ireland'. Speakers from Ireland and abroad will tackle a variety of aspects relating to the geenral theme on Mendicants on the Margins, from mendicant orders in geographical margins, the lesser-known orders such as the Augustinian friars, female communities and the Franciscan Third Order, to mendicant communities on the margins of the traditional model of urban mendicancy, such as foundations in non-urban environments, and aspects of mendicant studies challenging the traditional historiography of mendicant orders.

Registration

Attendance is free, but let us know if you'd like to attend by emailing annejulie.Lafaye@ucc.ie 

For more about the symposiun see https://irishmedievalfriaries.wordpress.com/the-symposium/  

Programme

• 9.00-9.15: Registration
• 9.15-9h30: Welcome and introduction 

9.30 – 10.45 Session 1:  Geographical margins

• Yvonne McDermott (GMIT), ‘Tertiary types: The Franciscan Third Order Regular in the west of Ireland’
• Sophie Delmas (Associate member, CNRS), ‘The mendicant orders and urbanisation: counter-inquiry on the French coastline’

10.45-11.15: Coffee break

11.15-12.30 Session 2: Mendicants on the margins of latin Christendom

• Olga Posazhennikova (Texas Tech University), ‘Administering the Frontiers of Latin Christendom: The Role of the Franciscan Bishops in the Papal Effort to Purify the Christian Church in the Course of the Thirteenth Century’
• Panayota Volti (Paris-Nanterre), ‘Dominican pastoral and iconographical semantics in the architectural context of late medieval Peloponnese, Greece’

12.30-14.00: Lunch break

14.00-15.15: Session 3 – Social margins, women and the mendicants

• Tracy Collins (University College Cork), ‘Absence of evidence – evidence of absence? Female communities of the mendicant orders in medieval Ireland’
• Catherine Lawless, (Trinity College Dublin), 'The Power of Penitence:Penitent Women and the Friars in Medieval Florence'

15.15-15.45: Coffee break

15.45-17.00 Session 4: Historiographical margins

• Padraig Ó MachÁin (University college Cork) and Eamon Ó Ciosáin (NUI Maynooth), ‘A stronghold in the West: Augustinian friaries in Connacht in the late medieval and early modern period, viewed from the letters of Domhnall Mac Suibhne’
• Haude Morvan (Universite Bordeaux-Montaigne), ‘Ermanno Domenico Cristianopulo: paths of Dominican erudition from Dalmatia to Spain during the 18th century’

17.00-17.30: Concluding remarks