Circulation of books and reform ideas between female monasteries in medieval castile

Processes of Reform in Female Monasteries in Medieval Castile: A World of Diversitas The revision of the traditional rhetoric of religious reform by recent scholarship has acknowledged the lack of a clear definition. Indeed, there were many reform movements, all of them distinct from one another and...

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Autor: Pérez Vidal, Mercedes
Tipo de recurso: capítulo de libro
Fecha de publicación:2024
País:España
Institución:Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Repositorio:Biblos-e Archivo. Repositorio Institucional de la UAM
Idioma:inglés
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Palabra clave:Female Monasteries
Medieval Castile
reform
Arte / Bellas Artes
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spelling Circulation of books and reform ideas between female monasteries in medieval castilePérez Vidal, MercedesFemale MonasteriesMedieval CastilereformArte / Bellas ArtesProcesses of Reform in Female Monasteries in Medieval Castile: A World of Diversitas The revision of the traditional rhetoric of religious reform by recent scholarship has acknowledged the lack of a clear definition. Indeed, there were many reform movements, all of them distinct from one another and closely related through the contingencies of time and space. Thus, we must analyse the peculiarities of each of these reforms, avoiding preconceived ideas about the uniformity of these movements which have shaped modern scholarship's vision of reform. As Steven Vanderputten has argued, reforms of individual institutions have to be analysed and understood as processes, rather than as ‘flashpoint events’. Hence, they should not be seen as a result of the agency of a charismatic reformer, nor as the simple implementation of a reformist programme. On the contrary, reform was normally a long-term process, with different phases, and in which the tension between structure and agency, and between the institution's past and present, were a constant. It was a negotiated, collective endeavour, which evolved through time, in response to changing circumstances. Claire Taylor Jones has reached similar conclusions in analysing the specific case of the Observant reform of the German Dominican Order, and in particular of Dominican nuns. She proved how the traditional narrative presenting the Golden Age at the order's founding in the thirteenth century, the decline in the fourteenth century and renewal by Dominican ‘Observants’ was a preconceived scheme that does not reflect reality. Every reform movement can only properly be understood in a broader and comparative framework. At present this comparative approach is hampered by the imbalance in the state of research into different territories, religious orders and timeframes. Whereas a high number of studies have focused on Central and Northern Europe, as well as on Italian convents, research into reform processes for the Iberian Peninsula, and particularly in Castile, has remained fairly underdeveloped. 8 Moreover, in Castile, traditional historiography has approached these questions from the perspective of the ‘official’ reformers, offering a vision of false homogeneity. For instance, regarding the Observant reform, the majority of studies have focused on the late period coinciding with the reign of the Catholic Monarchs, Ferdinand and Isabella (r. 1475–1516). Nevertheless, although their role cannot be denied, the monarchs were not the only agents of reform and, as we will see later, they acted only in the later phase of a long-term reform processRYC2021-033027-I funded by MCIN/AEI /10.13039/501100011033 and by the European Union NextGenerationEU/PRTRBoydell & BrewerHotchin, JulieThibaut, JirkiDepartamento de Historia y Teoría del ArteFacultad de Filosofía y Letras20242024-01-09book parthttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_3248VoRhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85info:eu-repo/semantics/bookPartapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10486/713349https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781800109742.007reponame:Biblos-e Archivo. Repositorio Institucional de la UAMinstname:Universidad Autónoma de MadridInglésengopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:repositorio.uam.es:10486/7133492026-06-23T12:46:27Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Circulation of books and reform ideas between female monasteries in medieval castile
title Circulation of books and reform ideas between female monasteries in medieval castile
spellingShingle Circulation of books and reform ideas between female monasteries in medieval castile
Pérez Vidal, Mercedes
Female Monasteries
Medieval Castile
reform
Arte / Bellas Artes
title_short Circulation of books and reform ideas between female monasteries in medieval castile
title_full Circulation of books and reform ideas between female monasteries in medieval castile
title_fullStr Circulation of books and reform ideas between female monasteries in medieval castile
title_full_unstemmed Circulation of books and reform ideas between female monasteries in medieval castile
title_sort Circulation of books and reform ideas between female monasteries in medieval castile
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Pérez Vidal, Mercedes
author Pérez Vidal, Mercedes
author_facet Pérez Vidal, Mercedes
author_role author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Hotchin, Julie
Thibaut, Jirki
Departamento de Historia y Teoría del Arte
Facultad de Filosofía y Letras
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Female Monasteries
Medieval Castile
reform
Arte / Bellas Artes
topic Female Monasteries
Medieval Castile
reform
Arte / Bellas Artes
description Processes of Reform in Female Monasteries in Medieval Castile: A World of Diversitas The revision of the traditional rhetoric of religious reform by recent scholarship has acknowledged the lack of a clear definition. Indeed, there were many reform movements, all of them distinct from one another and closely related through the contingencies of time and space. Thus, we must analyse the peculiarities of each of these reforms, avoiding preconceived ideas about the uniformity of these movements which have shaped modern scholarship's vision of reform. As Steven Vanderputten has argued, reforms of individual institutions have to be analysed and understood as processes, rather than as ‘flashpoint events’. Hence, they should not be seen as a result of the agency of a charismatic reformer, nor as the simple implementation of a reformist programme. On the contrary, reform was normally a long-term process, with different phases, and in which the tension between structure and agency, and between the institution's past and present, were a constant. It was a negotiated, collective endeavour, which evolved through time, in response to changing circumstances. Claire Taylor Jones has reached similar conclusions in analysing the specific case of the Observant reform of the German Dominican Order, and in particular of Dominican nuns. She proved how the traditional narrative presenting the Golden Age at the order's founding in the thirteenth century, the decline in the fourteenth century and renewal by Dominican ‘Observants’ was a preconceived scheme that does not reflect reality. Every reform movement can only properly be understood in a broader and comparative framework. At present this comparative approach is hampered by the imbalance in the state of research into different territories, religious orders and timeframes. Whereas a high number of studies have focused on Central and Northern Europe, as well as on Italian convents, research into reform processes for the Iberian Peninsula, and particularly in Castile, has remained fairly underdeveloped. 8 Moreover, in Castile, traditional historiography has approached these questions from the perspective of the ‘official’ reformers, offering a vision of false homogeneity. For instance, regarding the Observant reform, the majority of studies have focused on the late period coinciding with the reign of the Catholic Monarchs, Ferdinand and Isabella (r. 1475–1516). Nevertheless, although their role cannot be denied, the monarchs were not the only agents of reform and, as we will see later, they acted only in the later phase of a long-term reform process
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