Abstract
Ante la crisis espiritual experimentada a fines de la Edad Media, las órdenes religiosas iniciaron un complejo proceso de reforma fundamentado en el recuerdo y la emulación del carisma de sus respectivos fundadores y padres espirituales, en el que las imágenes habrían de desempeñar un papel fundamental. El estudio y la necesidad de instruir adecuadamente a los miembros de las distintas comunidades religiosas se convirtieron entonces en objeto de debate, quedando esta inquietud plasmada en alguna de las principales manifestaciones artísticas gestadas en este ambiente de reforma.
Highlights
At the end of the Middle Ages, due to the spiritual crisis, religious orders initiated a complex reform process based on the emulation of their respective founders and spiritual fathers’ charism, in which images played a key role
The study and the necessity to properly instruct the members of the different religious communities became a subject of discussion, as some of the artworks conceived in the framework of this reform atmosphere manifest
Como han demostrado recientes estudios, las representaciones de mujeres escribiendo son prácticamente inexistentes en fechas anteriores a 1400, siendo santa Brígida una de las pocas privilegiadas que aparecen inmortalizadas en plena redacción de sus Revelaciones (Fig. 7)
Summary
At the end of the Middle Ages, due to the spiritual crisis, religious orders initiated a complex reform process based on the emulation of their respective founders and spiritual fathers’ charism, in which images played a key role.
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