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IMC 2022: Sessions

Session 240: Portuguese Convent Culture in the 15th-16th Centuries: New Perspectives

Monday 4 July 2022, 14.15-15.45

Organisers:Paula Cardoso, Instituto de Estudos Medievais (IEM), Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Kristin Hoefener, Ensemble KANTIKA/ University of Würzburg
Moderator/Chair:Juliet Simpson, Centre for Arts, Memory & Communities, Coventry University
Paper 240-aPicturing a Renewed Spirituality: The Colettine Reform and the Use of Art in the Portuguese Communities of Poor Clares
(Language: English)
Paula Cardoso, Instituto de Estudos Medievais (IEM), Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Index terms: Art History - General, Monasticism, Religious Life, Women's Studies
Paper 240-bMarian Devotion in Aveiro: Words, Music, and Images, 15th-16th Centuries
(Language: English)
Kristin Hoefener, Ensemble KANTIKA/ University of Würzburg
Index terms: Liturgy, Music, Performance Arts - General, Women's Studies
Paper 240-cNew Perspectives on the Study of Portuguese Cistercian Nunneries: The Holistic Approach Followed by the LORVAO Project for the Study of Two Early 16th-Century Illuminated Manuscripts
(Language: English)
Catarina Miguel, Departamento de Conservação & Restauro, Faculdade de Ciências & Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Index terms: Manuscripts and Palaeography, Monasticism, Science, Women's Studies
Paper 240-dFemale Religious Power in Priestly Garments: Gender, Religion, and Material Culture in Lorvão at the time of Catarina d'Eça, 1471-1521
(Language: English)
Mercedes Pérez Vidal, Departament d'Història i Arqueologia / Institut de Recerca en Cultures Medievals, Universitat de Barcelona
Index terms: Art History - General, Gender Studies, Liturgy, Monasticism
Abstract

Studies on late medieval cloistered women proliferated during the last 30 years revealing new information on their way of life, spirituality, and cultural expressions. However, scholars have only recently begun to devote their attention to the study of Portuguese female religious communities and their material culture. This panel features four ground-breaking studies on Clarissan, Cistercian, and Dominican nunneries by four scholars from different disciplines: art history, conservation sciences, and musicology, and will provide new insights on artwork in relation to functionality, the materiality of illuminated manuscripts and other artefacts, and the link between written and sounding chant.