Descripción del proyecto
Combinar imágenes y palabras para comprender la vida conventual
Existen numerosos artefactos materiales, obras de arte y literatura que muestran la vida de las mujeres en los conventos de la península Ibérica (1350-1550) y que fueron creados por monjas en sus vidas conventuales. Si se estudian por separado como distintos campos de la cultura, son difíciles de interpretar, lo que puede dar lugar a confusión. Para superar este reto, el proyecto financiado con fondos europeos LITVIS pretende aplicar una perspectiva conjunta pionera abordando el arte visual, los textos y los rituales en su contexto común: la vida en el convento. El trabajo ayudará a desvelar, combinar y comprender cómo y por qué se crearon algunos objetos y textos, así como su función y su recepción en la vida en el convento.
Objetivo
This project aims to assess the existence of interrelations between the nuns’ literary and visual cultures in the shaping of female monastic life in the Iberian nunneries (c. 1350-1550), since the rising suggestions on the mutual influences between the use and development of texts and artworks in conventual context demand that these phenomena be analysed as part of the same equation in order to be fully understood. By addressing these communities' visual and literary cultures and their religious praxis from a joined perspective, LITVIS will contribute for the further comprehension of artworks, texts and rituals that shaped monastic life, unveiling information about their development, functionality and reception that could not be obtain when inquiring those phenomena individually as has been happening until now, not only in Iberia, but also at an European level. The surviving of important elements of material culture in the Iberian Peninsula - such as conventual inventories, books and artworks -, can enable a study that will further analyse what informed the nuns’ choice and use of artworks and texts and if and how both media were interconnected in monastic life. This entails a change of focus from the isolated object (an artwork or text) and its formal characteristics, to its functionality and reception, acknowledging it as part of the religious praxis to which it bears witness. Such a task demands an interdisciplinary study that brings together the fields of Art History, Literature, and Religious History, borrowing notions born within the Cultural Studies, such as Visual Culture and Literary Culture.
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MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF)Coordinador
08002 Barcelona
España