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 |
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Moderator/Chair: | Juliet Simpson, Centre for Arts, Memory & Communities, Coventry University |
Paper 240-a | Picturing a Renewed Spirituality: The Colettine Reform and the Use of Art in the Portuguese Communities of Poor Clares (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Monasticism, Religious Life, Women's Studies |
Paper 240-b | Marian Devotion in Aveiro: Words, Music, and Images, 15th-16th Centuries (Language: English) Index terms: Liturgy, Music, Performance Arts - General, Women's Studies |
Paper 240-c | New 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) Index terms: Manuscripts and Palaeography, Monasticism, Science, Women's Studies |
Paper 240-d | Female Religious Power in Priestly Garments: Gender, Religion, and Material Culture in Lorvão at the time of Catarina d'Eça, 1471-1521 (Language: English) 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. |