Religious women in golden age Spain
Subtitle: the permeable cloister
By: Elizabeth A. Lehfeldt.
Series: Women and gender in the early modern world
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
Subjects: Catholic Church -- Spain -- Valladolid -- History -- Modern period, 1500-; Convents -- Spain -- Valladolid -- History.; Monastic and religious life of women -- Spain -- Valladolid -- History.; Valladolid (Spain) -- Church history.
Description: "Religious Women in Golden Age Spain is the first book-length study in English to pose a chronological and conceptual framework for identifying and analyzing the role of nuns and convents in late-medieval and early-modern Spanish society."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-233) and index.
Table of contents: title: Bound together in community : convents and their patrons; title: Blurring the boundaries : convents as estate managers; title: Litigious behavior : convents and lawsuits; title: A carpenter resisted : late medieval monastic reform; title: Habits of reform : religious women before Trent; title: The cloister and the world.