The Institute of Medieval Studies (NOVA FCSH) promotes the Conference Cycle Viver, ler e rezar no Mosteiro de Lorvão (Living, reading and praying in Lorvão Abbey (15th-16th centuries)), integrated into the project Books, Rituals and Space in a Cistercian Nunnery. Living, Praying and Reading in Lorvão, 13th-16th centuries (ref. PTDC/ART-HIS/0739/2020), financed by national funding through the FCT – Foundation for Science and Technology.

This cycle aims to stimulate and renew studies on Lorvão Abbey, in the period following the arrival of Cistercian nuns in 1211, across various different facets and opening the opportunity for discussion around several themes (the political and religious context of the arrival of the nuns in Lorvão, memories and archives, spaces and liturgy, institutions and power, images and representations) while fostering comparative perspectives with other Peninsular monastic communities.

The monthly sessions will be held by Zoom and are open to all interested parties.

The Conference on 21 April 2022, entitled “Espaço e liturgia nos mosteiros cistercienses femininos de Leão, Castela e Aragão” (Space and liturgy in the Cistercian female monasteries of León, Castile and Aragon) is held by Prof. Eduardo Carrero Santamaría (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona).

Event access link: https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/87948869761?pwd=T0tQVVl3cStnbzh0TnpWdG1WWVhGZz09
Password: 584948

Past conference recordings available at: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2g0AhCDaozEkZ5enFFRooidBwhCCeN2R