“Female Community, Identity, and Icon: Honoring the Madonna Advocata in Santi Domenico e Sisto,”
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2023
Abstract
The final session of the Council of Trent in 1563 called for the restoration and preservation of the strict enclosure of female religious communities.Regardless of birth or social status, professed nuns were not permitted to leave their convent and, conversely, no one was allowed to enter the conventual enclosure without the express permission of the bishop or superior. The Tridentine decree of strict clausurawas reconfirmed by Pope Pius V in 1566 and by Pope Gregory XIII in 1572. In 1577, the cardinal-archbishop of Milan, Carlo Borromeo, provided guidance for the implementation of enclosure in convent architecture in his text
Original Publication Citation
“Female Community, Identity, and Icon: Honoring the Madonna Advocata in Santi Domenico e Sisto,” Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal 17, n. 2 (2023): 299-327, https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/723375
Digital Commons @ LMU & LLS Citation
Noreen, Kirstin, "“Female Community, Identity, and Icon: Honoring the Madonna Advocata in Santi Domenico e Sisto,”" (2023). Art & Art History Faculty Works. 51.
https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/artarhs_fac/51
