Project description DEENESFRITPL Medieval women in transnational religious changes In late medieval Europe, several movements challenged the institutional and doctrinal claims of hegemonic Christianity and were pronounced ‘heretical’. Without priestly office or formal Latin education, ‘illiterate’ women involved in these movements have been characterised as keen followers and caregivers, but their intellectual role has been considered marginal. The EU-funded ILLITTERATAE project aims to research women’s role in the transmission of alternative religious ideas, focusing on groups that were known as ‘beguins/beguines’ and often associated with the reforming branch of the Franciscan order in western Mediterranean cities. ILLITTERATAE will locate and map their activity using social network analysis, geographic information systems, and an open-access app, producing a digital catalogue of sources and proposing a new model for transnational religious changes. Show the project objective Hide the project objective Objective ILLITTERATAE explores religious radicalisation in later medieval Europe. It deals in particular with the role of women in the process of conversion to alternative religious movements in the late-thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Without priestly office or formal Latin education, ‘illiterate’ women have been characterised as keen followers and caregivers, but their intellectual role in these movements has been considered marginal or nonexistent. ILLITTERATAE interrogates their impact on the transmission of religious ideas and devotional knowledge in the western Mediterranean region by focusing on conversion from mainstream Christianity and redefining the metrics of religious radicalisation. ILLITTERATAE will concentrate on communities that came to be known as 'beguines/beguins', building and cataloguing an extensive corpus of archival and textual sources connected to the development of a ‘beguin’ identity across the Mediterranean. It will also map the local, regional, and transnational levels of this movement, deemed to be ‘heretic’ by the papacy in the early fourteenth century, through the combined application of Social Network Analysis and Geographic Information Systems. Finally, an Open Access web-based application will make the digital output of the project accessible to the scientific community and the wider public, including the source catalogue, digital editions of relevant texts, historical and geographical maps, network graphs, statistical diagrams, and references to modern scholarship. These will combine to allow users to augment the original sources by juxtaposing them with different layers of information. ILLITTERATAE will develop a relational model for thinking about religious change that crosses traditional national boundaries, thus reinforcing the agenda of Horizon 2020 by including women in religious leadership narratives, taking into account the dialectic between repression and dissent and the connection between violence and extremism. Fields of science natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesphysical geographycartographygeographic information systemshumanitieshistory and archaeologyhistorymedieval historyhumanitiesphilosophy, ethics and religionreligions Programme(s) H2020-EU.1.3. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Main Programme H2020-EU.1.3.2. - Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility Topic(s) MSCA-IF-2020 - Individual Fellowships Call for proposal H2020-MSCA-IF-2020 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme MSCA-IF-EF-ST - Standard EF Coordinator QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON Net EU contribution € 224 933,76 Address 327 mile end road E1 4NS London United Kingdom See on map Region London Inner London — East Tower Hamlets Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00
