Our Team has developed A voice of their own: Women's Spirituality in the Middle Ages, a MOOC that introduces the different landscapes of women's spirituality in the Middle Ages.

The course is offered in English with subtitles in English, Spanish and Catalan, and stems from the results of the research carried out by the team of Spiritual Landscapes.

Coordinator: Delfi I. Nieto-Isabel

This is the syllabus of the 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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