IMC 2022: Sessions
Session 340: Sub clausura: Living Female Monastic Enclosure in Medieval Portugal
Monday 4 July 2022, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | Instituto de Estudos Medievais (IEM), Universidade Nova de Lisboa |
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| Organiser: | João Luís Fontes, Instituto de Estudos Medievais, Universidade Nova de Lisboa / Centro de Estudos de História Religiosa, Universidade Católica Portuguesa |
| Moderator/Chair: | João Luís Fontes, Instituto de Estudos Medievais, Universidade Nova de Lisboa / Centro de Estudos de História Religiosa, Universidade Católica Portuguesa |
| Paper 340-a | The Enclosure of Cistercian Nuns in Portugal: Tradition, the Statutes of Odivelas (1295 and 1306), and the Periculoso Decree (1298) (Language: English) Index terms: Monasticism, Religious Life, Social History, Women's Studies |
| Paper 340-b | Female Enclosure: Norms and Experiences of the Portuguese Poor Clares during the Middle Ages (Language: English) Index terms: Monasticism, Religious Life, Women's Studies |
| Paper 340-c | Looking at the Convent Walls: Theory and Practice of Enclosure in Late Medieval Portuguese Dominican Nunneries (Language: English) Index terms: Monasticism, Religious Life, Women's Studies |
| Abstract | What did it mean to live enclosured for women who, in the final centuries of the Middle Ages, joined monastic communities that were obliged to do so? Imposed by the papacy through the bull Periculoso (1298), it emerged as a particularly distinctive sign of the movements that proposed a renewal of religious life, shaping the norms, inspiring models, giving rise to practices that conformed to it or questioned it. Based on the example of three orders - Cistercians, Poor Clares, and Dominican Observants - we will seek to better understand how this reality was lived in medieval Portugal, and to what extent the frontiers imposed by the conventual walls or bars were effectively respected and assumed as a path of perfection. |