IMC 2015: Sessions
Session 1216: The Church in Western Iberia (León, Asturias, Galicia, and Portugal), III: Women's Religious Communities
Wednesday 8 July 2015, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Société d’Études Interdisciplinaires sur les Femmes au Moyen Âge et la Renaissance |
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| Organiser: | James D'Emilio, Department of Humanities, University of South Florida |
| Moderator/Chair: | M. Raquel Alonso Álvarez, Departamento de Historia del Arte y Musicología, Universidad de Oviedo |
| Paper 1216-a | Why Found a Convent?: Female Patronage in Times of Reform (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Monasticism, Social History |
| Paper 1216-b | Founders and Families: Networks of Noblewomen and the Cistercian Nunneries of León (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Religious, Genealogy and Prosopography, Monasticism, Women's Studies |
| Paper 1216-c | Reassesing Women's Agency in the Dominican Nunneries in the Western Iberian Peninsula, 13th-16th Centuries (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - General, Liturgy, Monasticism, Women's Studies |
| Abstract | The prominent women's religious communities of León and Castile in the Central Middle Ages have attracted particular attention in connection with the patronage of women of the royal family and the institution of the Infantado, an inheritance of royal princesses that included oversight of nunneries closely associated with the Crown. These three papers look at a broader class of aristocratic women, their motives and methods for founding and supporting nunneries, and their patronage, production, and performance of works of art and the liturgy in nunneries, particularly of the Cistercians and Dominicans. |