IMC 2019: Sessions
Session 832: Cistercians, II: Aspects of Materiality in the Portuguese Cistercian Context
Tuesday 2 July 2019, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | Instituto de Estudios Medievias, Universidade Nova de Lisboa / 'Cistercian Horizons: Studying and Characterizing a Medieval Scriptorium and Its Production: Alcobaça, Local Identities and Liturgical Uniformity in Dialogue' (PTDC/ART-HIS/29522/2017) |
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| Organiser: | Terryl N. Kinder, _Cîteaux: Commentarii cistercienses_, Pontigny |
| Moderator/Chair: | David N. Bell, Department of Religious Studies, Memorial University of Newfoundland |
| Paper 832-a | Where Do Portuguese Cistercian Nuns Spend Their Own Money in the 13th to 15th Centuries? (Language: English) Index terms: Monasticism, Religious Life, Social History, Women's Studies |
| Paper 832-b | Materiality and Functionalities of the Abbot's Lodgings in Medieval Portuguese Cistercian Monasteries (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Religious, Monasticism, Religious Life, Social History |
| Paper 832-c | The Cult of Saint Blaise in Alcobaça (Language: English) Index terms: Liturgy, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Monasticism, Religious Life |
| Abstract | Monastic life meant a vow of poverty and the renunciation of property. Yet in Portugal it was customary for nuns to retain material benefits from lands given when they entered, thus creating an apparent contradiction. Abbots' lodgings have been little studied in Portugal; inventories, testaments, charters and customaries will be used to propose a synthesis of the subject. The presence of a relic (bone) at Alcobaça instigated a change in liturgy, the incorporation of new feast into the calendar, and the addition of texts to the oldest manuscripts, thus demonstrating how materiality and spirituality were intertwined. |