Aneilya Barnes, Coastal Carolina University
Jacob Abell, Baylor University
Monastic Life and Venerated Spaces
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This series examines monastic movements amid broader religious and cultural traditions. It explores the everyday life of monastic individuals, the collective experience of religious communities, and the nature of asceticism and monasticism, as well as monastic institutions, patronage, and spaces and landscapes central to ascetic traditions, including sites of veneration. The series also welcomes research on monastic and ascetic communities and traditions from around the world during the period 500-1500 CE.
Keywords: Monasticism, asceticism, sacred landscape, sacred space, mysticism, veneration sites
Geographical scope: Global
Chronological scope: 500-1500 CE