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