Ella Kilgallon, 'Emotion and the Creation of Sacred Space'

Ella Kilgallon is a doctoral student at Queen Mary, University of London. Her AHRC funded project investigates the lived and imagined spaces of female members of the Franciscan third order in thirteenth-century Italy. This paper was delivered at a research workshop on ‘Medieval Emotions and Contemporary Methodologies’ at Birkbeck, University of London, on 8 July 2016. In the paper, Ella discusses the life of Angela of Foligno, a female penitent and member of the Franciscan third order, and analyses the physicality of her emotional response upon entering two key Franciscan churches.