Paula Filipa Freire Cardoso (3B19-E788-D450)

Curriculum Vitae

Paula Filipa Freire Cardoso

Paula Cardoso holds a PhD in Art History - Medieval Art from the Nova University of Lisbon (2019). Her thesis focused on the production, patronage and use of illuminated liturgical books by the Portuguese Dominican nuns in the context of Observant Reform, bringing to light new information on these nuns' agency, their level of literacy and the connections between monastic art, gender and communal memory. Part of this research was conducted at the Medici Archive Project, Florence (Italy) where she held a non-stipendiary junior research fellowship in 2017. In 2021 she was awarded a Marie Sklodowska Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship by the European Commission to develop a two-year project at Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona). She has published several peer-reviewed articles in international publications such as the Journal of Medieval History or the Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies. Currently Paula is working at the Institute for Medieval Studies of the Nova University of Lisbon where she was granted a 6-year junior research contract under the program Scientific Employment Stimulus (CEEC) of the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). Since September 2024 she is also an Invited Assistant Professor at the Department of Arts, Communication and Cultural Heritage of the University of Algarve. Her current research explores the interrelations between the visual and textual cultures, gender and liturgy of Portuguese mendicant nuns from the Late Medieval to the Early Modern period (1400-1600).

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Paula Filipa Freire Cardoso

Citation names

Cardoso, Paula

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: 3B19-E788-D450
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-5502-3371

Addresses

Instituto de Estudos Medievais Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas – NOVA FCSH Av. de Berna, 26 C, 1069-061 , Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

https://unl-pt.academia.edu/PaulaFC (Scholar)

Knowledge fields

Humanities - Arts - Art history
Humanities - History and Archaeology - History

Education

	Degree	Classification
2022/07/15 - 2022/08/15 Concluded	Curso de iniciación a la lectura de escritura procesal (20h) (Outros) Asociación de Amigos del Archivo Histórico Nacional, Spain
2019/06/12 Concluded	História da Arte (Doutoramento) Major in Especialidade: História da Arte Medieval Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal "Art, Reform and Female Agency in the Portuguese Dominican Nunneries: Nuns as Producers and Patrons of Illuminated Manuscripts (c. 1460-1560)." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Muito bom por unanimidade
2013/12/19 Concluded	Arte, Património e Teoria do Restauro/ Art, Cultural Heritage and Restauration Theory (Mestrado) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal "A Iluminura de Maria de Ataíde e Isabel Luís no Mosteiro de Jesus de Aveiro (c. 1465-1500)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	18
2013/03/01 - 2013/06/26 Concluded	Medieval Latin: Translation and palaeographical analysis (Outros) Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
2011/07/15 - 2011/07/31 Concluded	Dynamics and Metamorphosis of Classics as Performative Events (Outros) Ethniko kai Kapodistriako Panepistemio Athenon, Greece
2011 Concluded	Art Studies (Licenciatura) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Letras, Portugal "n/a" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	17

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2023/08/01 - Current	Contracted Researcher (Research)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Estudos Medievais, Portugal
	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Estudos Medievais, Portugal
2021/07/01 - 2023/07/31	Postdoc (Research)	Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
	Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
2015/03/01 - 2019/06/12	Researcher (Research)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Estudos Medievais, Portugal
	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Estudos Medievais, Portugal
2017/09/01 - 2017/12/31	Researcher (Research)	The Medici Archive Project , Italy
	The Medici Archive Project , Italy
2013/10/01 - 2015/03/01	Research Trainee (Research)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Estudos Medievais, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

	Category Host institution	Employer
2024/09 - 2025	Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher)	Universidade do Algarve Faculdade de Ciências Humanas e Sociais, Portugal
	Universidade do Algarve Faculdade de Ciências Humanas e Sociais, Portugal

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2023/05/01 - 2027/04/30	LITVIS - Literary and Visual Cultures in the shaping of female conventual life (Portugal, c. 1400-1600) 10.54499/2020.01493.CEECIND/CP1586/CT0004 Principal investigator Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2021/03/01 - 2024/03/01	Livros, rituais e espaço num Mosteiro Cisterciense feminino. Viver, ler e rezar em Lorvão nos séculos XIII a XVI. PTDC/ART-HIS/0739/2020 PTDC/ART-HIS/0739/2020 Researcher Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Estudos Medievais, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2022 - 2024	LaiRem-Nexus. AGÈNCIA GESTIÓ AJUTS UNIVERSITARIS I RECERCA. SGR-Cat 2021 2021 SGR 00970 Researcher Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain	Generalitat de Catalunya Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca Ongoing
2021/07/01 - 2023/07/31	Literary and Visual Cultures in the shaping of female monastic life (Iberian Peninsula, c. 1350 - 1550) 101030153 101030353 Principal investigator Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain	European Commission Concluded
2018/10/01 - 2022/09/30	Horizontes cistercienses. Estudar e caracterizar um scriptorium medieval e a sua produção: Alcobaça. Identidades locais e uniformidade litúrgica em diálogo. PTDC/ART-HIS/29522/2017 Researcher Universidade de Évora, Portugal Universidade Nova de Lisboa Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento da FCT, Portugal Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2015/03/01 - 2019/02/28	Uma cultura visual para o feminino: A iluminura nos livros de coro dos mosteiros dominicanos femininos do século XVI SFRH/BD/102198/2014 PhD Student Fellow Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Estudos Medievais, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2012/03/15 - 2015/10/31	Hebrew illumination in Portugal during the 15th century FCT/3599-PPCDT/119488/PT Researcher Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de História da Arte, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded

Outputs

Publications

Book chapter	Cardoso, Paula. "Clarissan Reform, Miraculous Objects, and Shared Devotions: Portuguese Colettine Nuns within their Urban Communities". In The Mendicants and the Urban Mediterranean, ed. Austin Powell and Jon Paul Heyne, (Routledge, Forthcoming). 2025. In press Cardoso, Paula. "O Papel das Monjas na Produção Cultural Observante: Produção e Aquisição de Manuscritos Iluminados nos Mosteiros Dominicanos Femininos Portugueses (Séc. XV e XVI)". In Os Dominicanos em Portugal (1216-2016), 127-145. Portugal: CEHR-UCP - Centro de Estudos de História Religiosa da Universidade Católica Portuguesa, 2018. Published Cardoso, Paula. "Os Livros de Coro quinhentistas de Soror Antónia: o Antifonário L.C. 13". In Luz, Cor e Ouro, 261-274. Portugal: EDITORA CRV, 2016. Published Cardoso, Paula. "Uma cultura visual para o feminino? Iluminura nos mosteiros dominicanos femininos do século XVI - O Estado da Questão". In O fascínio do gótico, 185-200. Portugal: Artis - Instituto de História da Arte Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa, 2016. Published Miranda, Maria Adelaide; Fernandes Barreira, Catarina; Cardoso, Paula; Ribeiro, Luís Campos. "Diálogos entre judeus e cristãos: a iluminura em Portugal no século XV". In O livro e a Iluminura judaica em Portugal no final da Idade Média, 99-108. Portugal: Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, 2015. Published Cardoso, Paula. "Iluminar no feminino: O scriptorium do Mosteiro de Jesus de Aveiro no final do século XV". In Invenire: Revista de Bens Culturais da Igreja, 56-63. Portugal, 2015. Cardoso, Paula. "As iluminuras do mosteiro de jesus de aveiro e as suas relações com a iluminura hebraica tardo-medieval". In O livro e as interações culturais judaico-cristãs em portugal no final da idade média, 367-384. Portugal: Campo da Comunicação, 2015. Published
Exhibition catalog	Cardoso, Paula. Livros litúrgicos e cultura escrita no Convento de Jesus de Aveiro (c. 1458–1525). Museu de Aveiro / Santa Joana - Câmara Municipal de Aveiro, 2022.
Journal article	Cardoso, Paula. "Religious Women and Liturgy in a Portuguese Codex: Gendering the Reception and Profession Ceremonies in the Dominican Convents". Journal of Early Modern Christianity (2025): Accepted Paula Cardoso. "Reviving the forma vitae: Identity, authority and material culture in the first Portuguese convents of Colettine Clarisses". Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies 16(2) (2024): 212-237. https://doi.org/10.1080/17546559.2023.2299812. Open access • Published • https://doi.org/10.1080/17546559.2023.2299812 Paula Cardoso. "Shaping an Observant identity: Narrative and image in the service of reform in the Portuguese Dominican nunneries". Mélanges de la Casa de Velázquez 52-2 (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/mcv.17719. 10.4000/mcv.17719 Cardoso, Paula. "Arte, Reforma e Agência Feminina nos Conventos Dominicanos Portugueses: O Papel das Freiras na Produção e Mecenato de Manuscritos Iluminados (c. 1460-1560)". Medievalista Online (2021): Published • 10.4000/medievalista.3968 Cardoso, Paula. "Unveiling female observance: reform, regulation and the rise of Dominican nunneries in late medieval Portugal". Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies (2020): 1-18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17546559.2020.1802654. Published • 10.1080/17546559.2020.1802654 Cardoso, Paula. ""Beyond the Colophon: Assessing Roles in Manuscript Production and Acquisition in the Observant Dominican Nunneries of Early-Modern Portugal"". Pecia. Le livre et l’écrit 19 (2018): 59-85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1484/j.pecia.5.114330. Published • 10.1484/j.pecia.5.114330 Cardoso, Paula. "Autonomy and the cura monialium in female monastic art: the fifteenth-century illuminated manuscripts from the Dominicanmonastery of Jesus of Aveiro". Journal of Medieval History 44 4 (2018): 484-505. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03044181.2018.1489882. Published • 10.1080/03044181.2018.1489882 Cardoso, Paula. "Os processionários quatrocentistas de Isabel Luís: dos modestos livros das irmãs ao livro dourado da prioresa.". Cadernos de História da Arte 1 (2013):
Magazine article	Andrade, Maria Filomena; Fontes, João Luís; Cardoso, Paula. "Educação, livros e produção escrita nas comunidades mendicantes femininas medievais", Jornal de Notícias História, 2024
Thesis / Dissertation	Cardoso, Paula. "Art, Reform and Female Agency in the Portuguese Dominican Nunneries: Nuns as Producers and Patrons of Illuminated Manuscripts (c.1460-1560)". PhD, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2019. Cardoso, Paula Filipa Freire. "A luminura de Maria de Ataíde e Isabel Luís no Mosteiro de Jesus de Aveiro (c. 1465-1500)". Master, Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10451/12223.

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2024/07/03	Books, Literacy and Learning in the Portuguese Colettine Convents	Internacional Medieval Congress Leeds Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds, Leeds (Leeds, United Kingdom)
2023/07/04	"Between the convent and the people: Miraculous objects, shared devotions and the reform of female mendicancy in late medieval Portugal."	Leeds International Medieval Congress, 2023 Leeds University (Leeds, United Kingdom)
2023/04/28	"'De transitu sororum’: The liturgy of death in the Dominican convent of Aveiro – Performance, material culture and memory"	International Conference Renewal and Religious Identity in the Iberian Convents (ca. 1400 – 1600) Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain)
2022/11/26	Livros Litúrgicos e Prática Religiosa no Convento de Jesus de Aveiro (c. 1464-1525)	XVI Jornadas de História local e Património documental - Joana de Aveiro - Mulher, Princesa e Santa- 550 Anos da Chegada a Aveiro Camara Municipal de Aveiro (Aveiro, Portugal)
2022/10/06	"Nuns on the move: Travelling beyond enclosure in late-medieval Portugal"	GEMELA - Women's Words Beyond Borders Universidad de Valencia (Valencia, Spain)
2022/07/11	‘Reforming Portuguese female mendicancy: Women as agents of change"	Beyond Exceptionalism II: Women in Medieval Society John Rylands Research Institute and Library (Manchester, United Kingdom)
2022/07/04	"Picturing a Renewed Spirituality: The Colettine Reform and the Use of Art in the Portuguese Communities of Poor Clares"	Leeds International Medieval Congress, 2022 (IMC 2022 Borders) Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds, Leeds (Leeds, United Kingdom)
2021/11/25	Books for the use of nuns: Gender and religious identity in liturgical books from the sixteenth-century Portuguese nunneries	Jornadas Internacionales Espacios Religiosos, Poder y Género. Monasterios femeninos y mundos ibéricos, perspectiva comparada. S. XVI, XVII y XVIII, 2021 (Rome, Italy)
2021/07/05	Literacy and Learning in the Dominican nunneries of Late-Medieval Portugal	Leeds International Medieval Congress, 2021 Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds, Leeds (United Kingdom)
2019/11/18	The production and patronage of illuminated manuscripts in the Portuguese Dominican nunneries (c. 1460-1560)	New perspectives on the Dominican convents and nunneries in the Iberian Peninsula (13th-18th centuries) Université Bordeaux Montaigne (Bordeaux, France)
2019/04/22	"From the Cistercians to the Dominicans: Space, Liturgy and authonomy in the reception of the novices and the rite of profession"	International Congress - A Realm of Women: Literary, Cultural, and Artistic Expression in Convents Universidade de Évora (Évora, Portugal)
2018/07/05	“The role of the Dominican Nuns in the production and acquisition of Illuminated Manuscripts”	Leeds International Medieval Congress 2018 Leeds University (Leeds, United Kingdom)
2017/10/21	“Space and Liturgy in a fifteenth-century Ceremonial from a Portuguese Dominican Nunnery: the Reception of the Novices and the Rite of Profession.”	Convegno internazionale lo spazio nei monasteri femminili medievali: Società, cultura, arte e liturgia, 20-21st October 2017. Università di Padova, Padua, Italy. (Padova, Italy)
2017/09/23	“Foe translladada do moesteyro de sã domingos da vylla d’abrantes a este de Jhesu de aaveyro, que fez e fundou. O panteão das dominicanas de Aveiro (séculos XV-XVI)”	International Conference Loci Sepulcralis: Pantheons and Other Places of Memory and Burial in the Middle Ages Monastery of Batalha; Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Batalha, Portugal)
2016/01/29	"... e com muito feruor faziam o que nam sabiam nem podiam" - O scriptorium feminino do Mosteiro de Jesus de Aveiro no final do século XV.”	Jornadas de História – Os Dominicanos em Portugal (1216-2016) - História. Memória. Património. CEHR - Centro de Estudos de História Religiosa - Universidade Católica Portuguesa (Aveiro, Portugal)
2015/07/25	“Livros de Coro de Santa Maria de Belém no fundo da Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal”	Congresso Internacional Os Jerónimos no mundo Luso - Hispânico História, Arte e Património CEHR - Centro de Estudos de História Religiosa - Universidade Católica Portuguesa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2015/07/07	"Illuminating the observant reform? The choir books of the 16th-century Portuguese Dominican nunneries."	Leeds International Medieval Congress 2015 Leeds University (Leeds, United Kingdom)

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2024/07/03 - 2024/07/03	Session 1141: "Gender and Knowledge in Late Medieval Portugal", International Medieval Congress Leeds 2024 (2023/07 - 2023/07) Congress (Co-organisor)	University of Leeds, United Kingdom
2023/04/28 - 2023/04/29	International Conference Renewal and Religious Identity in the Iberian Convents (ca. 1400 – 1600) (2022/04/28 - 2022/04/29) Conference (Co-organisor)	Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
2022/07/04 - 2022/07/04	Session: Portuguese Convent Culture in the 15th-16th c.: New Perspectives at Leeds International Medieval Congress, 2022 (2022/07/04) Conference (Co-organisor)	University of Leeds Institute for Medieval Studies, United Kingdom

Event participation

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2019/01/23 - 2019/01/26	Seminar: "O scriptorium e a biblioteca" as part of the short course "Compreender os espaços monástico-conventuais medievais - Curso para Guias Intérpretes" Seminar	Compreender os espaços monástico-conventuais medievais - Curso para Guias Intérpretes Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
2018/10/18 - 2018/10/18	Seminar: “The Breviary of Ercole I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara” at the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon. Seminar	Ciclo de Seminários Tesouros em Pergaminho Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal

Association member

	Society Organization name	Role
2021 - Current	GEMELA - Grupo de Estudios sobre la Mujer en España y las Américas (pre-1800)	Member

Committee member

	Activity description Role	Institution / Organization
2019 - Current	Member of the scientific committee of the Instituto de Estudos Medievais of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Member	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Estudos Medievais, Portugal

Conference scientific committee

	Conference name	Conference host
2023/04/28 - 2023/04/29	Internacional Conference Renewal and Religious Identity in the Iberian Convents (1400-1600)	Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Course / Discipline taught

	Academic session	Degree Subject (Type)	Institution / Organization
2024/09 - Current	História da Arte Medieval (Medieval Art History)	Património Cultural e Arqueologia (Licenciatura)	Universidade do Algarve Faculdade de Ciências Humanas e Sociais, Portugal
2023 - 2023	MOOC - Inside the convent: Books and images in female monastic life	(Outros)	Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain

Distinctions

Other distinction

2020	Seal of Excellence Certificate - Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions (MSCA) individual fellowships Horizon 2020 - EU's research and innovation funding programme, Belgium
2010	Prémio 3% dos Melhores Estudantes Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2009	Prémio Feijó 2009 Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2009	Prémio 3% dos Melhores Estudantes Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal