Thursday/Jeudi 15/12
09.30 Registration/Acceuil
10.00 Steven Vanderputten (Ghent University/Université de Gand)
Introduction
10.30 Michèle Gaillard (Université de Lille SHS – Institut de recherches historique du Septentrion)
Abbés et abbesses comme ressources dans les réformes monastiques en haute Lotharingie, du début du IXe siècle au milieu du Xe siècle
11.15 Katy Cubitt (University of York)
Abbots as a human resource in Benedictine Reform England
12.00 Jirki Thibaut (Ghent University)
A Look at the Agency of Abbesses: The Example of Ottonian Saxony
12.45 Lunch
14.00 Nicolangelo d’Acunto (Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan)
Les abbés comme ressources humaines en Italie aux 10ième-11ième siècles
14.45 Carlos Reglero (Universidad de Valladolid)
Founders and reformers: abbots in the kingdoms of Leon and Navarre (IX-XII centuries)
15.30 Break
16.15 Ben Pohl (University of Bristol)
Between crosier and career: Abbots as agents of change in eleventh- and twelfth- century Normandy
17.00 Gert Melville (Technische Universität Dresden)
The Abbot of Cluny at the Turning Point from the Charismatic-Traditional to Legal Authority. An Analysis according to Max Weber’s Model
19.00 Speakers’ dinner
Friday/Vendredi 16/12
10.00 Emilia Jamroziak (University of Leeds)
Early Cistercian abbots, leadership and human-resources: central and local perspectives in the twelfth century
10.45 Johan Belaen (Ghent University)
The role of abbots in the coordination of regional Benedictine monasticism (c. 1130 – c. 1215): new perspectives and questions
11.30 Steven Vanderputten
Concluding remarks