Conferences by Mercedes Perez Vidal
This Interdisciplinary Conference on the Cistercian monastery of Lorvão between the Middle Ages a... more This Interdisciplinary Conference on the Cistercian monastery of Lorvão between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance will take place on 29th and 30th June.
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Leeds International Medieval Congress 2022, 2022
Studies on late medieval cloistered women proliferated during the last 30 years revealing new inf... more 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.
The purpose of the workshop is to gather scholars who are carrying on innovative approaches to Do... more The purpose of the workshop is to gather scholars who are carrying on innovative approaches to Dominican convents and nunneries in Spain and Portugal.
The study of the architecture and the ornamentation of Mendicant convents has been deeply renewed during the last two decades. Art historians are progressively abandoning a mere technical and stylistic approach to the architecture and the decoration of churches and conventual buildings by focusing the reflection on functional, social and symbolic factors which conditioned their design. This new research tendency regards not only friars’ convents, but also, on the wave of the “gender studies”, nunneries linked to the Mendicant families.
The new questionings are concerned with function of spaces and decoration, in relation to liturgy, burying, and to social and even political activities convents and nunneries housed. They lead art historians to have an interdisciplinary dialogue with scholars from other fields (historians, liturgists, musicologists, archaeologists, anthropologists), and to exploit new kind of sources.
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Conferences by Mercedes Perez Vidal
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The study of the architecture and the ornamentation of Mendicant convents has been deeply renewed during the last two decades. Art historians are progressively abandoning a mere technical and stylistic approach to the architecture and the decoration of churches and conventual buildings by focusing the reflection on functional, social and symbolic factors which conditioned their design. This new research tendency regards not only friars’ convents, but also, on the wave of the “gender studies”, nunneries linked to the Mendicant families.
The new questionings are concerned with function of spaces and decoration, in relation to liturgy, burying, and to social and even political activities convents and nunneries housed. They lead art historians to have an interdisciplinary dialogue with scholars from other fields (historians, liturgists, musicologists, archaeologists, anthropologists), and to exploit new kind of sources.