(Trans)missions: Monasteries as Sites of Cultural Transfers

This volume focuses on the Catholic tradition of consecrated life (vita religiosa) from the High Middle Ages to the present. It gathers papers by authors from various disciplinary backgrounds, in particular art history, history, anthropology and translation studies.

(Trans)missions: Monasteries as Sites of Cultural Transfers focuses on the Catholic tradition of consecrated life (vita religiosa) from the High Middle Ages to the present. It gathers papers by authors from various disciplinary backgrounds, in particular art history, history, anthropology and translation studies. Finally, it includes two short reports on Czech projects on monastic topics. The chronological and geographical scope of the book is focused on the Western tradition from the High Middle Ages up to the present, specifically in the territory of Central Europe and Spain along with its overseas colonies. The region of Central Europe was interconnected with the Spanish Empire through the Austrian and Spanish Habsburgs, allowing the given topic to be studied in a broader international context, and to involve the Central European and Spanish territories in the global flow of information, thus incorporating the regional and national histories of individual European countries into global history. This involvement is also enabled by the study of interconnecting themes, such as cultural transfers within and between the Old and the New World, information flows between the Spanish and Austrian Habsburgs, the processes of individual and social identity formation, representation and othering of women, and the missionary activities of mendicant orders in the New World, together with their translation practices; and by the contextualization of monastic history and related themes within the processes of European internal and external colonization and evangelization.

Introduction - Monika Brenisinova and Marketa Krizova Chapter I: Sola Superbia Destruit Omnia The Female Monster in Liber Depictus as a Polysemantic Image of the Spiritual Malformation and the Fallen World - Daniela Rywikova Chapter II: Who Was the Reader of the Passional of the Abbess Kunigonde? Passion Imagery and Devotion in St George Monastery at the Prague Castle - Lenka Panuskova Chapter III: Benedictine St George's Monastery at the Prague Castle as a Crossroad of Medieval Cultural Trends and Ideas - Renata Modrakova Chapter IV: Picturing Monasteries. 16th Century New Spain Monastic Architecture as Site Of Religious Processions - Monika Brenisinova Chapter V: The Monastic Translation Seen Through the Current Perspective - Jana Kralova Chapter VI: The Prologues of the Spanish Dominican Translators as the Main Ideas for Reflection on Translation Theory - Antonio Bueno Chapter VII: Other Time: Construction of Temporality in Monasteries of Benedictine tradition - Barbora Spalova and Jan Tesarek Sources, Forms and Functions of Monastic Historiography of the Early Modern Age in the Czech Lands (2014-2016) - Jan Zdichynec Monastic Itineraries - Katerina Charvatova and Radka Ranochova Contributors References, Introduction – Monika Brenišínová and Markéta Křížová Chapter I: Sola Superbia Destruit Omnia The Female Monster in Liber Depictus as a Polysemantic Image of the Spiritual Malformation and the Fallen World – Daniela Rywiková Chapter II: Who Was the Reader of the Passional of the Abbess Kunigonde? Passion Imagery and Devotion in St George Monastery at the Prague Castle – Lenka Panušková Chapter III: Benedictine St George’s Monastery at the Prague Castle as a Crossroad of Medieval Cultural Trends and Ideas – Renáta Modráková Chapter IV: Picturing Monasteries. 16th Century New Spain Monastic Architecture as Site Of Religious Processions – Monika Brenišínová Chapter V: The Monastic Translation Seen Through the Current Perspective – Jana Králová Chapter VI: The Prologues of the Spanish Dominican Translators as the Main Ideas for Reflection on Translation Theory – Antonio Bueno Chapter VII: Other Time: Construction of Temporality in Monasteries of Benedictine tradition – Barbora Spalová and Jan Tesárek Sources, Forms and Functions of Monastic Historiography of the Early Modern Age in the Czech Lands (2014-2016) – Jan Zdichynec Monastic Itineraries – Kateřina Charvátová and Radka Ranochová Contributors ;