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Late medieval women were able to promote highly sophisticated funerary ensembles, adapted to their specific ideas and needs, and which included architecture, painting, sculpture, liturgy, textiles, lighting and other ephemeral elements. These elements could be manipulated to create complex spaces that involved heightened considerations of how to shape and configure sensory experience. This chapter will focus on the Purification Chapel in the Cathedral of Burgos (Spain) built by the Countess of Haro, Mencía de Mendoza at the end of the fifteenth century. We will use the art historical analysis to look at tacit understandings of the relation between gender to the senses and the ways in which intersensorial interaction and interplay shape experience and memory.

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This page is a summary of: Touching Female Memories in the Purification Funerary Chapel in Burgos (c. 1482–1531), Annali dell Istituto e Museo di storia della scienza di Firenze, June 2024, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/18253911-bja10104.
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