Paula Cardoso
@paula-cardoso.bsky.social
Nature and animal lover. Art History PhD. FCT-CEEC Postdoc Researcher at NOVA University of Lisbon. Former #MSCA Postdoc Fellow. Portuguese Nuns, Gender, Material Culture, Reform (1400-1600).
https://unl-pt.academia.edu/PaulaCardoso
https://unl-pt.academia.edu/PaulaCardoso
My new article on the Cult of the Immaculate Conception among Portuguese Dominican nuns is out. It shows how this was a deep-rooted devotion in these communities (despite the Dominican opposition to the immaculist doctrine) through analysis of the convents' material culture brill.com/view/journal...
brill.com
September 26, 2025 at 8:42 AM
My new article on the Cult of the Immaculate Conception among Portuguese Dominican nuns is out. It shows how this was a deep-rooted devotion in these communities (despite the Dominican opposition to the immaculist doctrine) through analysis of the convents' material culture brill.com/view/journal...
This volume is out and includes my chapter: "Clarissan Reform, Miraculous Objects and Shared Devotions: Portuguese Colettine Nuns within their Urban Communities"
#medievalsky #medievalnuns #nuns #clarisses
#medievalsky #medievalnuns #nuns #clarisses
The Mendicants and the Urban Mediterranean, c.1200-1500
This volume explores the relationship of mendicant men and women to cities and their inhabitants in the Mediterranean world, c.1200–1500. It asks questions including: what was specifically “urban” abo...
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April 24, 2025 at 8:06 AM
This volume is out and includes my chapter: "Clarissan Reform, Miraculous Objects and Shared Devotions: Portuguese Colettine Nuns within their Urban Communities"
#medievalsky #medievalnuns #nuns #clarisses
#medievalsky #medievalnuns #nuns #clarisses
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Medieval Working Women: Their role in the trades of Southern France in the 14th century www.medievalists.net/2021/03/medi... #MedievalWomen
Medieval Working Women: Their role in the trades of Southern France in the 14th century - Medievalists.net
This article provides an overview of the roles and place of women in artisanal guilds in late medieval southern France
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March 25, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Medieval Working Women: Their role in the trades of Southern France in the 14th century www.medievalists.net/2021/03/medi... #MedievalWomen
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New guest post on the #ArtHerstory blog!
Plautilla Nelli & the Workshop of Santa Caterina in Cafaggio
by Alessia Motti
An account of the artistic career and accomplishments of Renaissance artist-nun Plautilla Nelli, including her collaboration with her sister-nuns.
artherstory.net/plautilla-ne...
Plautilla Nelli & the Workshop of Santa Caterina in Cafaggio
by Alessia Motti
An account of the artistic career and accomplishments of Renaissance artist-nun Plautilla Nelli, including her collaboration with her sister-nuns.
artherstory.net/plautilla-ne...
Plautilla Nelli and the Workshop of Santa Caterina in Cafaggio
An account of the artistic career and accomplishments of Renaissance artist-nun Plautilla Nelli, including her collaboration with other nuns.
artherstory.net
March 28, 2025 at 6:29 PM
New guest post on the #ArtHerstory blog!
Plautilla Nelli & the Workshop of Santa Caterina in Cafaggio
by Alessia Motti
An account of the artistic career and accomplishments of Renaissance artist-nun Plautilla Nelli, including her collaboration with her sister-nuns.
artherstory.net/plautilla-ne...
Plautilla Nelli & the Workshop of Santa Caterina in Cafaggio
by Alessia Motti
An account of the artistic career and accomplishments of Renaissance artist-nun Plautilla Nelli, including her collaboration with her sister-nuns.
artherstory.net/plautilla-ne...
Reposted by Paula Cardoso
This is a critically important contribution to the ongoing efforts to recover hidden female labor and artisanship. Three cheers for Dulcia and Guba and Claricia and all of the wondrous women involved in the work of creating medieval manuscripts! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
How many medieval and early modern manuscripts were copied by female scribes? A bibliometric analysis based on colophons - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - How many medieval and early modern manuscripts were copied by female scribes? A bibliometric analysis based on colophons
www.nature.com
March 12, 2025 at 1:42 PM
This is a critically important contribution to the ongoing efforts to recover hidden female labor and artisanship. Three cheers for Dulcia and Guba and Claricia and all of the wondrous women involved in the work of creating medieval manuscripts! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Paula Cardoso
#EarlyModern #WomensHistoryMonth Women Writers Online is free to access till the end of March. 470 full text works covering the 16th to 19th centuries, including the famous and not so well known.
wwo.wwp.northeastern.edu/WWO/search?b...
wwo.wwp.northeastern.edu/WWO/search?b...
Women Writers Online
wwo.wwp.northeastern.edu
March 12, 2025 at 3:50 PM
#EarlyModern #WomensHistoryMonth Women Writers Online is free to access till the end of March. 470 full text works covering the 16th to 19th centuries, including the famous and not so well known.
wwo.wwp.northeastern.edu/WWO/search?b...
wwo.wwp.northeastern.edu/WWO/search?b...
Just in time for Women's International Day, my new article is finally out and in open access! It analyses the performance and gendering of reception and profession ceremonies in the Dominican nunneries.
#DeGruyter #medievalsky #nunastic #nuns
www.degruyter.com/document/doi...
#DeGruyter #medievalsky #nunastic #nuns
www.degruyter.com/document/doi...
Religious Women and Liturgy in a Fifteenth-Century Portuguese Codex: Gendering the Reception and Profession Ceremonies in the Dominican Convents
The problem of whether Dominican nuns adopted the order’s official liturgy, implemented in 1256, remains a complex topic. The rarity of liturgical sources containing instructions for the performance o...
www.degruyter.com
March 9, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Just in time for Women's International Day, my new article is finally out and in open access! It analyses the performance and gendering of reception and profession ceremonies in the Dominican nunneries.
#DeGruyter #medievalsky #nunastic #nuns
www.degruyter.com/document/doi...
#DeGruyter #medievalsky #nunastic #nuns
www.degruyter.com/document/doi...
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“We tend to assume that because there are more women completing doctoral degrees and at the assistant professor rank, gender equity is inevitable at some point in the future. These results show that this assumption is flawed.”
"Women full professors are 19% more likely than men at the same career stage to leave academia, as compared with 6% for women assistant professors and 10% for associates."
Women faculty feel ‘pushed’ from academia by poor workplace climate
The gender gap in faculty attrition worsens after tenure, according to a new study
www.science.org
December 10, 2024 at 5:52 PM
“We tend to assume that because there are more women completing doctoral degrees and at the assistant professor rank, gender equity is inevitable at some point in the future. These results show that this assumption is flawed.”
Black Friday is now a thing in Portugal. It's everywhere, from the corner shop to the big shopping centre. I don't get it. Fake discounts, people buying things they don't need just because... Madness.
December 1, 2024 at 7:09 PM
Black Friday is now a thing in Portugal. It's everywhere, from the corner shop to the big shopping centre. I don't get it. Fake discounts, people buying things they don't need just because... Madness.
Reposted by Paula Cardoso
#MedievalSky people, listen up: here is a great opportunity to do a postdoc on sainthood with the Warsaw team!
A medievalist job in Warsaw. A postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of History, University of Warsaw, in project “Recognising Saints in the High Middle Ages: Local and Papal Formalisation of Cults Reconsidered”. historia.uw.edu.pl/en/job-offer...
December 1, 2024 at 5:55 PM
#MedievalSky people, listen up: here is a great opportunity to do a postdoc on sainthood with the Warsaw team!
I'm not a fan of social media, but I'll give this a try. Getting ready to explore the #medievalsky 😊
November 23, 2024 at 5:43 PM
I'm not a fan of social media, but I'll give this a try. Getting ready to explore the #medievalsky 😊