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Reassessing knowledge transmission structures of religious women in Southern Europe, c. 1300–1500

Removed from the hegemonic centres of production and transmission of knowledge of their time, religious women have traditionally been considered solely as receivers of an affective spirituality restricted to the realm of popular piety. This tendency has recently been nuanced in two directions: either by demonstrating the participation of religious women in the so-called learned culture, or in the valorisation of other types of non-canonical knowledge. In this talk, Sergi will firstly outline the different turns that the academic community has taken to try to circumvent the problem of the invisibility of religious women in the field of 'intellectual history'. Secondly, he will point to new lines that he is using in his research to reconsider teaching structures ruled by women religious as key elements in the transmission of knowledge at the end of the Middle Ages.

Dr Sergi Sancho Fibla is a researcher based at UCLouvain, Belgium.