Barcelona, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, April 28-29, 2023
Sala de grados Albert Calsamiglia – Campus de la Ciutadella

Organisers : Paula Cardoso (Universitat Pompeu Fabra – Barcelona) María Morrás (Universitat Pompeu Fabra – Barcelona)

Program

Scientific Committee
Patricia Stoop (University of Antwerp)
Sylvie Duval (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf)
Catarina Fernandes Barreira (Instituto de Estudos Medievais – NOVA FCSH)
Luís Miguel Rêpas (Instituto de Estudos Medievais – NOVA FCSH) María Morrás (Universitat Pompeu Fabra – Barcelona)
Paula Cardoso (Universitat Pompeu Fabra – Barcelona)

Contact: paulafilipa.freire@upf.edu

Online transmission
April 28: https://meet.google.com/uyp-eqto-php April 29: https://meet.google.com/asp-vpua-xjc

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie IF grant agreement No 101030153

Programme :

Friday, April 28 14:00 | Welcoming

Session 1 | 14:15 – 15:45
Chair: Araceli Rosillo (Arxiu-Biblioteca dels Franciscans de Catalunya)

a) Eduardo Carrero Santamaría (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

Architecture and mental prayer in female monasticism between the 14th and 16th centuries.

b) Núria Jornet-Benito (Universitat de Barcelona)

Life and death of a Benedictine abbess, Constança de Peguera (1490- 1504) and Isabel de Ivorra (1504-1515), Sant Pere de les Puel.les de Barcelona. Material culture and feminine authority.

c) Paula Cardoso (Universitat Pompeu Fabra – Barcelona)

‘De transitu sororum’: The liturgy of death in the Dominican convent of Aveiro – Performance, material culture and memory.

Discussion
Session 2 | 15:45 – 17:15

Chair: Tomas Macsotay (Universitat Pompeu Fabra – Barcelona)

a) Gilberto Moiteiro (Instituto de Estudos Medievais – NOVA FCSH/ Instituto Politécnico de Leiria)
Identity discourses among Portuguese Dominican nuns.

b) Pablo Acosta-García (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

Leadership, hagiography and renewal in the Franciscan monastery of Santa María de la Cruz (Cubas de la Sagra).

c) Rebeca Sanmartín Bastida (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) Art and female visionaries after Trent. (remote)

Discussion
Break | 17:15 – 17:45

Session 3 | 17:45 – 19:15
Chair: Lícia Buttà (Universitat Rovira i Virgili)

a) Lucia Denk (Princeton University)

‘Sed mirabilior in nomine Marie’: Refashioning liturgical identity and mariological aesthetics in an Iberian convent.

b) María Victoria Curto (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

From music to silence: The evolution in decrescendo of the paradigm of female sanctity in 16th-17th century Castile.

c) Kristin Hoefener (Universidade Nova de Lisboa – CESEM)

A new religious congregation seeks her liturgical identity: A case study from the convent of Jesus in Aveiro. (remote)

Discussion

Saturday, April 29 Session 4 | 9:30 – 11:00

Chair: Mercè Gras Casanovas (Arxiu dels carmelites descalços de Catalunya i Balears)

a) María del Mar Graña Cid (Universidad Pontificia Comillas) Female preachers and exegets: The Iberian Franciscan women.

b) Maria Filomena Andrade (Universidade Aberta/IEM – NOVA FCSH/ UCP- CEHR)
Reform and institute in Observance: The Franciscan convents and the monasteries of Poor Clares, in Portugal, in the 14th to 16th centuries. (remote)

c) João Luís Fontes (Instituto de Estudos Medievais – NOVA FCSH/ UCP- CEHR)
Reforming and framing: The case of female and male communities of poor life in Portugal from the 14th to the 16th centuries. (remote)

Discussion
Break | 11:00 – 11:30

Session 5 | 11:30 – 13:30
Chair: Francesc Massip (Universitat Rovira i Virgili)

a) María Morrás (Universitat Pompeu Fabra – Barcelona)

Trespassing the convents walls: Saints and ladies.

b) Julia Lewandowska (Uniwersytet Warszawski)

Women’s religious literacy and biblical memory: Reading Saint Anne – The teacher in the female conventual culture.

c) Mercedes Pérez Vidal (Universidad Autonóma de Madrid)

Networks and travelling artefacts among women religious in the Iberian world (c. 1400-1600).

Discussion and Closing