IMC 2013: Sessions
Session 316: Between Worldly and Spiritual Pleasure: Texts and Spaces for Observance and Transgression in Medieval Iberian Nunneries
Monday 1 July 2013, 16.30-18.00
| Organiser: | M. Raquel Alonso Álvarez, Departamento de Historia del Arte y Musicología, Universidad de Oviedo |
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| Moderator/Chair: | M. Raquel Alonso Álvarez, Departamento de Historia del Arte y Musicología, Universidad de Oviedo |
| Paper 316-a | Royal and Aristocratic Religious Women in Medieval Spain, c. 950-1200: Between the Cloister and the World (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Monasticism, Religious Life, Women's Studies |
| Paper 316-b | Protecting Enclosure, Promoting the Mystical Union: Observant Textual Models for the Portuguese Dominican Women (Language: English) Index terms: Monasticism, Religious Life, Women's Studies |
| Paper 316-c | Sensuality and Devotion: Spaces for Penance versus Spaces for Leisure in the Castilian Dominican Nunneries (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Liturgy, Monasticism, Women's Studies |
| Abstract | Nuns' sensuality has become an attractive topic among scholars, either exploring the mystical union or the wanderings of some of these religious women outside the convent. However, regarding Iberian nunneries, these issues still remain comparatively unexplored and studies frequently rely on preconceptions. In this session we will explore how Portuguese and Spaniard nuns dealt with pleasure, taking into account a varied set of texts (legislative, normartive, devotional, and liturgical, etc.), but also the material enviroment and the monastic spaces. Moreover, our approach aims to set a comparison between different orders - from Benedictines to Dominicans - and throughout several centuries. |