Art and Liturgy of Latin American Nunneries. A Methodological Approach

Abstract

The cultural turn in Atlantic studies has opened new research ways placing gender and religion at the centre of the inquiries about the Atlantic World. Therefore, studies on Female Monasticism history  on those territories have grown in popularity in the past few  decades. Nevertheless, regarding art history, there is still a lack of  studies on these foundations, and a methodological renewal is  needed. I analyse the existant historiography on female  monasticism in México and Perú and I argue the necessity of a  study of art and architecture in relation to liturgy, within an Atlantic  framework.