Gender, the enclosure of nuns and the "cura monialium" in Castile during the 13th century: the Dominican Order as a case study
The enclosure of women devoted to the religious life inside convents, definitively imposed in 1298, is an appropriate topic for discussing gender. It shows relationships between men and women, masculine and feminine roles, and the importance of gender in the religious world. Some religious orders ha...
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| Tipo de recurso: | libro |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2009 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad de Alcalá (UAH) |
| Repositorio: | e_Buah Biblioteca Digital Universidad de Alcalá |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ebuah.uah.es:10017/27282 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10017/27282 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Monjas de clausura Dominicos Castilla Siglo XIII Humanidades Historia Humanities History |
| Sumario: | The enclosure of women devoted to the religious life inside convents, definitively imposed in 1298, is an appropriate topic for discussing gender. It shows relationships between men and women, masculine and feminine roles, and the importance of gender in the religious world. Some religious orders had adopted the enclosure of nuns in previous years, and they experienced problems that became general during the 14th and 15th centuries. This contribution specifically analyses the situation of the Dominican Order in the Kingdom of Castile during the 13th century. From 1267 the spiritual care of nuns was officially entrusted to male clergy, while their secular affairs were entrusted to Dominican friars. But in fact this division was not really strict, because nuns turned to all of them without distinction even before 1267. The fact is that they could not act independently of men’s jurisdiction, and separate roles were established for friars, the secular clergy and nuns. |
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