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Author_Elizabeth A. Lehfeldt
Bridgettine Convent
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Catholic reform Spain
Cistercian Convent
Cistercian Order
Contemplative Monasticism
convent estate management practices
Discalced Carmelite
Discalced Carmelite Convent
early modern gender studies
Early Modern Spain
Early Sixteenth Century Spain
Ecclesiastical Visitors
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Familial Patrimony
Female Monasticism
Female Religious
female religious authority
Innocent Iii
Las Huelgas
Male Ecclesiastics
monastic enclosure
Monastic Reform
Observant Franciscans
Passive Enclosure
Philip III
Professed Nuns
San Quirce
Santa Clara De
Seigniorial Jurisdiction
Spanish convent history
Strict Active Enclosure
Strict Claustration
Valladolid archival research
Product details
- ISBN 9780754650232
- Weight: 630g
- Dimensions: 153 x 219mm
- Publication Date: 21 Apr 2005
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Through an examination of the role of nuns and the place of convents in both the spiritual and social landscape, this book analyzes the interaction of gender, religion and society in late medieval and early modern Spain. Author Elizabeth Lehfeldt here examines the tension between religious reform, which demanded that all nuns observe strict enclosure, and the traditional identity of Spanish nuns and their institutions, in which they were spiritually and temporally powerful women. Lehfeldt's work is based on the archival records of twenty-three convents in the city of Valladolid, and peninsula-wide documents that include visitation records, the constitutions of religious orders, and spiritual biographies. Religious Women in Golden Age Spain is the first book-length study in English to pose this chronological and conceptual framework for identifying and analyzing the role of nuns and convents in late-medieval and early-modern Spanish society.
Elizabeth Lehfeldt is Associate Professor of History at Cleveland State University, USA.
