El equipo de Paisajes Espirituales ha desarrollado A voice of their own: Women's Spirituality in the Middle Ages, un curso online y gratuito que sirve como introducción a los diferentes paisajes a través de los cuales se manifiesta la espiritualidad femenina en la edad media.

El curso se ofrece en inglés con subtítulos en inglés, castellano y catalán (para facilitar la comprensión) y surge de los resultados de la investigación llevada a cabo por el equipo de Paisajes Espirituales.

Coordinadora: Delfi I. Nieto-Isabel

A continuación podéis ver el programa del MOOC:

UNIT 1: A voice of their own. Introduction

1.1 Spiritual context: nuns, Beguines, the awakening of the laity, mendicant orders – Blanca Garí (U. of Barcelona)

1.2 Evolution of female monasticism: from double monasteries to Benedictine and Cistercian nuns, Poor Clares and Dominican nuns – Raquel Alonso (U. of Oviedo)

1.3 New Mysticism – Blanca Garí (U. of Barcelona)

1.4 Persecution and Dissent: The Perspective of the Church – Delfi Nieto (U. of Barcelona)

1.5 Women Changing Spaces: the effect of female spirituality on the territory and the city – Núria Jornet (U. of Barcelona)

Optional videos:

1.6 Women and Confraternities – Concha Rodríguez (U. of Barcelona)

1.7 Women on the Move – Núria Jornet (U. of Barcelona)

UNIT 2: The House of the Heart. Female Nunneries in the Middle Ages

2.1 Pre-mendicant monasticism – Raquel Alonso (U. of Oviedo)

2.2 Mendicant nuns – Silvia Pérez (Pablo de Olavide University)

2.3 Enclosure – Laura Cayrol (EHESS)

2.4 The Daily Rythm of the Nunnery – Núria Jornet (U. of Barcelona)

2.5 Books and Archives in the Convent – Núria Jornet (U. of Barcelona)

Optional videos:

2.6 Benefactors, sponsors, and promoters – Laura Cayrol (EHESS)

2.7 Founding Queens: Isabel of Portugal, Sança of Mallorca, Elisenda de Montcada – Filomena Andrade (Universidade Aberta de Portugal)

UNIT 3: The Space Within. Female Mysticism in the Middle Ages

3.1 Hildegard of Bingen – Victoria Cirlot (Pompeu Fabra University)

3.2 The convent of Helfta – Marimar Graña (Pontifical University of Comillas)

3.3 Hadewijch of Antwerp and Courtly Mysticism – Blanca Garí (U. of Barcelona)

3.4 Marguerite Porète – Blanca Garí (U. of Barcelona)

3.5 Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe – David Carrillo (U. of Barcelona)

Optional videos:

3.6 Isabel de Villena and the tradition of the Vita Christi – Blanca Garí (U. of Barcelona)

3.7 Bridget of Sweden – David Carrillo (U. of Barcelona)

UNIT 4: Voices of Dissent

4.1 Good Women: The Female Side of Catharism – Daniela Müller (Nijmegen University)

4.2 Preaching Voices: The Role of Women among the Poor of Lyon – Delfi Nieto (U. of Barcelona)

4.3 Guglielmites: A Heresy in the Name of a Woman – Janine Larmon Peterson (Marist College New York)

4.4 The Burned Beguines of Languedoc – Delfi Nieto (U. of Barcelona)

4.5 Inquisitors and women – Delfi Nieto (U. of Barcelona)

Optional videos:

4.6 Curbing dissidence: From Beguines to Nuns – João Luís Fontes (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)

4.7 The alumbradas: 16th-century heretics? – Ángela Muñoz (U. of Castilla-La Mancha)

UNIT 5: Spiritual Landscapes

5.1 An Atlas of Female Spirituality (CLAUSTRA) – Núria Jornet (U. of Barcelona)

5.2 Nunneries and the Territory – Xavi Costa, Maria Soler (U. of Barcelona)

5.3 Nunneries in the city – Gemma Colesanti (CNR, Italy), Antonio Bertini (CNR, Italy), Maria Soler (U. of Barcelona)

5.4 Reconstructing Spaces – Caroline Bruzelius (Duke University)

5.5 The Observant Reformation – Marimar Graña (Pontifical University of Comillas)

Optional videos:

5.6 Medieval Spaces Today – Lucila Mallart (U. of Nottingham)

5.7 Women & Assistance – Pol Bridgewater (U. of Barcelona)

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