Beyond Naples : fourteenth-century royal widows and their Clarissan foundations in a trans-regional perspective

Title: Beyond Naples : fourteenth-century royal widows and their Clarissan foundations in a trans-regional perspective
Variant title:
  • Za hranicemi Neapole : královské vdovy ve čtrnáctém století a jejich zakázky pro řád klarisek v transregionální perspektivě
Author: Zöschg, Michaela
Source document: Convivium. 2022, vol. 9, iss. Supplementum 1, pp. [56]-[75]
Extent
[56]-[75]
  • ISSN
    2336-3452 (print)
    2336-808X (online)
Type: Article
Language
English
Summary language
Czech
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Abstract(s)
Comparative study of fourteenth-century monastery churches in locales as far-flung as present-day Italy, Switzerland, Portugal, and Spain reveals widespread common patterns of female royal patronage. Tombs at Naples's Santa Maria Donnaregina and Corpus Christi (Santa Chiara), the monastery churches of Königsfelden, Santa Clara-e-Isabel in Coimbra, and Santa Maria de Pedralbes in Barcelona all reflect the choices of royal widows who lived close to these churches and elected to be buried in them. By comparing the queens' tombs and considering the spatial arrangements within the churches, this paper demonstrates that a comparative trans-regional approach not only reveals widely diffused patterns of female royal patronage for female Franciscans, but also, at the same time, sharpens the profile of each foundation.
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