Medieval Art in the Czech Lands through the Prism of Gender: The Visual Culture of Female Monasteries in Medieval Bohemia and Moravia

Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Medieval Art in the Czech Lands through the Prism of Gender: The Visual Culture of Female Monasteries in Medieval Bohemia and Moravia
Original language description
The text consists of three case studies dealing with illuminated manuscripts commissioned by women from royal families; two for the prominent royal nunneries—one at Star Brno situated in Moravia and the second in Prague in Bohemia. The third study deals with an interesting vernacular Book of Hours commissioned by a queen or princess from the Prague Luxembourg court showing intriguing influences by specifically female monasticism as well as a visual translation of monastic devotional motifs and ideas into the secular-courtly setting; a process that can be observed elsewhere in Europe as early as the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. These idiosyncratic topics are discussed and interpreted with regard to gender specifics regarding the liturgical, devotional and artistic contexts. Such themes originated in the convents and clearly demonstrate the unique character of female monastic spirituality and its attractiveness outside the monastic setting, especially in the quasi-monastic communities of religious women, tertiary nuns and beguines, who have only recently begun to attract the attention of Czech medieval art history research, but also, as shown here, among the female members of the royal court.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name
Premodern History and Art through the Prism of Gender in East-Central Europe
ISBN
978-1-66690-523-6
Number of pages of the result
24
Pages from-to
35-58
Number of pages of the book
276
Publisher name
LEXINGTON BOOKS
Place of publication
Lanham ? New York ? London
UT code for WoS chapter
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