Las imágenes marianas, su indumentaria y ajuar: prácticas devocionales y liturgia a partir de los inventarios del monasterio de Sant Antoni i Santa Clara de Barcelona

Abstract

The monastery of Sant Antoni i Santa Clara in Barcelona, the first monastery of the Poor Clares in Catalonia founded in 1236, preserves a complete series of sacristy and community inventories that offer detailed information on the furniture, liturgical objects and other belongings of the monastery. From the emptying of 16 inventories (from 1337 to 1461) an analysis will be made of what we have called the “Marian trousseau”, that is to say, the exceptional set of textile pieces, jewelry and other types of accessories with which the Poor Clares dressed the images of the Virgin from the monastic church and the choir. The meaning and characteristics of the devotional practice of the wearing of images in these female communities will be studied according to the new historiographic perspectives, and as we will see, it was fully in line with the liturgy.