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Unconventual Women in the Habsburg Low Countries, 1585–1794: Visual Culture at the Court Beguinages book cover

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Unconventual Women in the Habsburg Low Countries, 1585–1794 Visual Culture at the Court Beguinages

By Sarah Joan Moran Copyright 2027
372 Pages 12 Color & 116 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book examines the Court Beguinages, a fascinating group of semi-monastic female communities that were endemic to cities of the Southern Low Countries from the thirteenth century into the twentieth. Their members, called Beguines, played fundamental social and religious roles in their communities, and they also became major patrons of art and architecture, building vast complexes and... Read more

Introduction

1. Beguine Visual Culture in Context

2. The Architecture of the Court Beguinages

3. A 'Monastic Makeover': Art and the Consolidation of Beguine Identity in the Counter Reformation

4. Models of Piety: Portrayals of Beguines and Their Audiences

5. Inside Beguine Homes: Material Culture, Devotion, and Family Ties

6. Inside Beguine Churches: Patterns of Patronage and Devotion

7. Framing the Mass: The Altars and Their Altarpieces

8. Beguine Church Furniture for Sacrament, Sermon, and Song

Conclusions

Biography

Sarah Joan Moran is an independent scholar focused on early modern women and their relationships to visual culture. She received her PhD in the History of Art and Architecture from Brown University in 2010, and her work has been funded by the Fulbright Foundation, Belgian American Educational Foundation, the Swiss National Science Foundation, the European Research Council, and the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study. From 2009 to 2103 she held a junior faculty post at the University of Bern, and at Utrecht University she was Assistant Professor of Art before 1850 in 2017–2018, and Associate Professor of Art before 1850 from 2018 until 2022. Dr. Moran currently works as a developmental editor and freelance exhibition curator.

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