Mercedes Pérez Vidal is Ramón y Cajal Senior Researcher at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. She received her PhD in Art History in 2013 from the Universidad de Oviedo, with a thesis on the Dominican female monasteries of medieval Castile. Her research focuses on the cultural history and art history of women’s convents during the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period, specifically the relation of art and architecture to liturgy; nuns’ libraries and manuscript production; and the networks of cultural transfer between the Iberian Peninsula and other territories. |