CMRS Ahmanson Conference Series
“Foundations of Medieval Monasticism”
Friday-Saturday, January 18-19, 2008

This CMRS Ahmanson Conference, organized by advanced graduate students in medieval studies, coincides with the completion of a two-year project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to create a digital database of the ninth-century “Plan of St. Gall,” an elaborate two-dimensional plan for a monastic complex. The conference will focus on the roots of medieval culture found in Carolingian monasticism, the reforms of the eighth and ninth centuries, and their impact in later periods. It offers an opportunity for scholars from a variety of disciplines to share current scholarship on medieval monasticism as well as to familiarize themselves with digital resources for the study of monasticism. This conference is made possible by a generous grant from the Ahmanson Foundation, and cosponsored by the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and the Dean of Humanities of the UCLA College of Letters and Science, and the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. It was organized by UCLA graduate students Leanne Good, Ned Schoolman, and Sarah Whitten, all of the History department, with the assistance of Dr. Barbara Schedl (UCLA and the University of Vienna) and Professor Patrick Geary (UCLA). Program http://www.cmrs.ucla.edu/programs/monasticism_program.pdf.
Abstracts of conference talks www.cmrs.ucla.edu/programs/medieval_monasticism_conf.html.