Rolando Volzone
I am an architect, working on building rehabilitation, and a post-doc researcher at DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte. Since February 2022, I am also Assistant Professor in "Contemporary Religious Architecture" and "Conservation and Sustainability", and lecturer at the PhD programs "Political Economy" and "Architecture of Contemporary Metropolitan Territories" at ISCTE-IUL.
I concluded my PhD with distinction in December of 2020, funded by FCT, focused on the cultural heritage of religious orders in the South of Portugal. To deepen my analysis, in 2018 I spent six months at the University of Florence, gaining knowledge in digital application for cultural heritage.
Along my research path, through the coordination of the three international seminars "Architectures of the Soul", in 2017, 2018 and 2020, and the Summer School "Digital Survey in Religious Architecture" in 2018, I strongly supported the establishment of an international and interdisciplinary scientific network around the religious heritage in Southern Europe.
In 2020 I joined the project "Conventos e Mosteiros de Portugal (1096-1901): spatiality and temporalities (CONVEMOS Project)", led by the Catholic University of Portugal and funded by Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Currently, I am a Post-doc researcher hired under the European project "F-ATLAS | Franciscan Landscapes: the Observance between Italy, Portugal and Spain", led by the Università degli Studi di Firenze and funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 program.
Address: Lisbon, Portugal
I concluded my PhD with distinction in December of 2020, funded by FCT, focused on the cultural heritage of religious orders in the South of Portugal. To deepen my analysis, in 2018 I spent six months at the University of Florence, gaining knowledge in digital application for cultural heritage.
Along my research path, through the coordination of the three international seminars "Architectures of the Soul", in 2017, 2018 and 2020, and the Summer School "Digital Survey in Religious Architecture" in 2018, I strongly supported the establishment of an international and interdisciplinary scientific network around the religious heritage in Southern Europe.
In 2020 I joined the project "Conventos e Mosteiros de Portugal (1096-1901): spatiality and temporalities (CONVEMOS Project)", led by the Catholic University of Portugal and funded by Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Currently, I am a Post-doc researcher hired under the European project "F-ATLAS | Franciscan Landscapes: the Observance between Italy, Portugal and Spain", led by the Università degli Studi di Firenze and funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 program.
Address: Lisbon, Portugal
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around cultural assets, where ‘smartness’ becomes a new connotation and a pathway to advance (local) knowledge and know-how. Therefore, this paper takes on the challenge to define a smart city as an ecosystem for people’s empowerment and participation, and, in particular, to explore
social tools for creating new values in heritage placemaking — where
sharing knowledge becomes a fundamental principle.
This volume takes his title from the first two International Seminars “Architectures of the Soul”, that took place in Lisbon at ISCTE - Universitary Institute of Lisbon in 2017 and 2018. They intended to promote the study and discussion around the architecture and the landscape associated to spiritual practices linked to the search of solitude and seclusion from the world, in its various forms, within spiritual or religious traditions or in more secularized forms, and the way it gets into relation and transforms or creates a particular landscape.
The aim of the research, which included the use of digital technology to document the state of conservation of the Florence Charterhouse monk’s cells, is the definition of a diagnostic framework and an abacus of constructive and decorative elements of the complex, which is functional to the understanding of these places. The cells, located in the north-east and south-east sides of the main cloister, have been carefully documented through laser scanning and photogrammetric survey campaigns, close range and at high altitude, flanked by the census work. For each cell, 2D and 3D drawings have been realized, generating an inedited documental system, through which it is possible to explore the important architectonic complex. One of the goals of the research is to provide, through a digital multidimensional and implementable in time database, a valid support for the comparison between the Florence Charterhouse implantation and other Italian Carthusian monasteries, including the Pavia Charterhouse.
Conference Presentations by Rolando Volzone
The conference is structured around two main topics, in order to understand the historical and current values of these places and how they can shape the future, through a renewed knowledge and new ways of turning them culturally meaningful:
1. History of religious experience; 2. Future of Religious Heritage.
The conference aims to establish the platform for a multidisciplinary approach on the subject, gathering and crossing history, architecture, landscape architecture, cultural heritage, art history, computing science, among others.
The three-day conference will be hosted by the Monastery of Santa Maria da Vitória, in the municipality of Batalha. This is a former dominican monastery, on the initiative of the Avis dinasty at the end of the 14th century. The complex is recognised as UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1983, exactly 40 years ago. The conference will be an opportunity to experience this impressive place, sharing knowledge, thinking and debating around our common historical heritage.
The real case studies are 2 monasteries located in Alentejo region, about one hour away from Lisbon and situated around the UNESCO Heritage Site city of Évora.
These monasteries were part of the Congregation of Saint Paul of Serra de Ossa (Ossa Mountain), which was founded in 1482, originated by an important eremitic movement called Homens da Pobre Vida (poor life men), documented since 1366. The community of hermits expanded up to the first half of the 15th century, mostly in southern Portugal in the Alentejo region. In 1578, following a process of institutionalization led by the Church, an autonomous congregation was set up, affiliated in the Hungarian Order of Saint Paul the First Hermit, until 1834, when the decree of dissolution of the religious orders disbanded all the convents and monasteries in Portugal.
Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies by Rolando Volzone
Editorial
Looking back, moving forward: a word from the incoming Editor-in-Chief
Therese Martin
Pages: 1-2 | DOI: 10.1080/17546559.2020.1711562
Original Articles
An archaeology of “small worlds”: social inequality in early medieval Iberian rural communities
Juan Antonio Quirós Castillo
Pages: 3-27 | DOI: 10.1080/17546559.2019.1678191
“Plange, Castella misera”: meaning and mourning at the royal abbey of Las Huelgas de Burgos in the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries
Emily Henry
Pages: 28-43 | DOI: 10.1080/17546559.2019.1657235
“La Carne es la Tierra”: microcosmic Adam, cartographic Christ in the Libro de Alexandre
Fernando Riva
Pages: 44-69 | DOI: 10.1080/17546559.2020.1719283
Pilgrims from the land of sagas: Jacobean devotion in medieval Iceland
Santiago Barreiro
Pages: 70-83 | DOI: 10.1080/17546559.2019.1705373
The Portuguese eremitical Congregation of the Serra de Ossa: spatial analysis of the monastic settlements
Rolando Volzone & João Luís Fontes
Pages: 84-105 | DOI: 10.1080/17546559.2019.1652838
Dead horse, man-at-arms lost: cavalry and battle tactics in 15th century Castile
Ekaitz Etxeberria Gallastegi
Pages: 106-123 | DOI: 10.1080/17546559.2019.1629611
around cultural assets, where ‘smartness’ becomes a new connotation and a pathway to advance (local) knowledge and know-how. Therefore, this paper takes on the challenge to define a smart city as an ecosystem for people’s empowerment and participation, and, in particular, to explore
social tools for creating new values in heritage placemaking — where
sharing knowledge becomes a fundamental principle.
This volume takes his title from the first two International Seminars “Architectures of the Soul”, that took place in Lisbon at ISCTE - Universitary Institute of Lisbon in 2017 and 2018. They intended to promote the study and discussion around the architecture and the landscape associated to spiritual practices linked to the search of solitude and seclusion from the world, in its various forms, within spiritual or religious traditions or in more secularized forms, and the way it gets into relation and transforms or creates a particular landscape.
The aim of the research, which included the use of digital technology to document the state of conservation of the Florence Charterhouse monk’s cells, is the definition of a diagnostic framework and an abacus of constructive and decorative elements of the complex, which is functional to the understanding of these places. The cells, located in the north-east and south-east sides of the main cloister, have been carefully documented through laser scanning and photogrammetric survey campaigns, close range and at high altitude, flanked by the census work. For each cell, 2D and 3D drawings have been realized, generating an inedited documental system, through which it is possible to explore the important architectonic complex. One of the goals of the research is to provide, through a digital multidimensional and implementable in time database, a valid support for the comparison between the Florence Charterhouse implantation and other Italian Carthusian monasteries, including the Pavia Charterhouse.
The conference is structured around two main topics, in order to understand the historical and current values of these places and how they can shape the future, through a renewed knowledge and new ways of turning them culturally meaningful:
1. History of religious experience; 2. Future of Religious Heritage.
The conference aims to establish the platform for a multidisciplinary approach on the subject, gathering and crossing history, architecture, landscape architecture, cultural heritage, art history, computing science, among others.
The three-day conference will be hosted by the Monastery of Santa Maria da Vitória, in the municipality of Batalha. This is a former dominican monastery, on the initiative of the Avis dinasty at the end of the 14th century. The complex is recognised as UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1983, exactly 40 years ago. The conference will be an opportunity to experience this impressive place, sharing knowledge, thinking and debating around our common historical heritage.
The real case studies are 2 monasteries located in Alentejo region, about one hour away from Lisbon and situated around the UNESCO Heritage Site city of Évora.
These monasteries were part of the Congregation of Saint Paul of Serra de Ossa (Ossa Mountain), which was founded in 1482, originated by an important eremitic movement called Homens da Pobre Vida (poor life men), documented since 1366. The community of hermits expanded up to the first half of the 15th century, mostly in southern Portugal in the Alentejo region. In 1578, following a process of institutionalization led by the Church, an autonomous congregation was set up, affiliated in the Hungarian Order of Saint Paul the First Hermit, until 1834, when the decree of dissolution of the religious orders disbanded all the convents and monasteries in Portugal.
Editorial
Looking back, moving forward: a word from the incoming Editor-in-Chief
Therese Martin
Pages: 1-2 | DOI: 10.1080/17546559.2020.1711562
Original Articles
An archaeology of “small worlds”: social inequality in early medieval Iberian rural communities
Juan Antonio Quirós Castillo
Pages: 3-27 | DOI: 10.1080/17546559.2019.1678191
“Plange, Castella misera”: meaning and mourning at the royal abbey of Las Huelgas de Burgos in the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries
Emily Henry
Pages: 28-43 | DOI: 10.1080/17546559.2019.1657235
“La Carne es la Tierra”: microcosmic Adam, cartographic Christ in the Libro de Alexandre
Fernando Riva
Pages: 44-69 | DOI: 10.1080/17546559.2020.1719283
Pilgrims from the land of sagas: Jacobean devotion in medieval Iceland
Santiago Barreiro
Pages: 70-83 | DOI: 10.1080/17546559.2019.1705373
The Portuguese eremitical Congregation of the Serra de Ossa: spatial analysis of the monastic settlements
Rolando Volzone & João Luís Fontes
Pages: 84-105 | DOI: 10.1080/17546559.2019.1652838
Dead horse, man-at-arms lost: cavalry and battle tactics in 15th century Castile
Ekaitz Etxeberria Gallastegi
Pages: 106-123 | DOI: 10.1080/17546559.2019.1629611