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Department of Modern Languages Speaker Series
presents
Dr. Raquel Trillia
Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics, University of Lethbridge
Infringement without defiance: the holy woman María García (1340-1426)
Monday, January 21st, 2019
2 to 3 p.m. in D632
The beata or holy woman María García lived in fourteenth-century Toledo a sanctioned life that exposes the tension possible between belief and dissension –fitting in and differentiating oneself– that both reflects and questions the values and culture of the society of her time. María does not dispute Christian doctrine, but deviates from the preferred conduct for women. She began at a very young age a life of charity and pilgrimage, and ended up establishing a beaterio. Her trajectory will be explored in relation to the socio-religious changes that took place between the twelfth and the fourteenth centuries of the European Middle Ages: the state of religious orders, mendicant orders, and urban poverty.
Contact:
Dr. Alain Flaubert Takam | alain.takam@uleth.ca | 403-329-2561
