[Comedias] Call for Papers for the Sixteenth Century Society

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Call for Papers for the Sixteenth Century Society Conference in San Juan,
Puerto Rico, October 24-27, 2013.

 

Convent Networks

 

The Renaissance convent's perceived isolation from the world outside was
arguably its chief religious and social asset. And yet, historians have
demonstrated that women religious not only had contact with individuals
outside their communities; they also exploited those associations to serve
their own aims. This session focuses in particular on relationships that
extended beyond the enclosure, connecting convent to convent and to the
public world in ways that were in some cases cooperative, and in others
antagonistic. These ties could be established, cultivated, or even rejected
in a variety of ways and influenced nuns' devotional lives, their
relationships with their patrons, and their art and architecture. For
instance, in Florence, Sister Domenica da Paradiso, foundress of La
Crocetta, used her correspondence with other abbesses and religious figures
to advance her reform agenda, while the nuns of Le Murate appealed to the
courts to exempt them from their submission to the convent of Sant'Ambrogio,
which prevented them from collecting alms that would support their
community's growth. In Venice, the nuns of San Zaccaria traveled to examine
the convent church at Santa Croce, supposedly to inform decisions about
their own church's construction. 

 

Although we are especially interested in the ways in which these connections
and networks expressed themselves through spatial practices or affected the
built environment, we are also open to proposals that consider the topic
more broadly. 

 

Please submit an abstract of no more than 250 words and a CV by February 28
to Marilyn Dunn mdunn at luc.edu <mailto:mdunn at luc.edu>  and Saundra Weddle
sweddle at drury.edu <mailto:sweddle at drury.edu> . 

 

For more information see http://www.sixteenthcentury.org/conference/

 

 

 

Marilyn R. Dunn Ph.D.   

Associate Professor

Department of  Fine and Performing Art            

1213 Mundelein Center                           

Loyola University Chicago                          

6525 N. Sheridan                                       

Chicago, IL  60626

 

 

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