Abstract
The fifteenth century demonstrated a religious reformist environment that encouraged, besides that other aspects, an institutionalization process of the semireligious feminine life. This activity was often led by mendicants orders, especially franciscan friars. Nevertheless, dominican friars took part in this process, although our knowledge about their responsibility in this sense is lesser. Precisely through this research work we will try to illustrate this activity, introducing a specific case of a feminine community that was next to the church of Santiago del Burgo of Zamora. This community became a convent of dominican nuns at the end of fifteenth century, and it had to experience a spatial transformation process according to the new situation. Fundamentally through the visits book of the contiguous parish church we know the conflictive relation that set up between the nuns monastery and that parish church. This church was used by the nuns to carry out their liturgical activities, although they never achieve the ownership of it.
Highlights
El siglo XV puede ser caracterizado como una época de cambios y de transformaciones a todos los niveles, tanto desde el punto de vista político como económico o religioso
Through this research work we will try to illustrate this activity, introducing a specific case of a feminine community that was next to the church of Santiago del Burgo of Zamora
This community became a convent of dominican nuns at the end of fifteenth century, and it had to experience a spatial transformation process according to the new situation
Summary
RESUMEN: El siglo XV fue testigo de un ambiente reformista a nivel religioso que fomentó, entre otros muchos aspectos, un proceso de institucionalización de las formas de vida religiosa femenina no regladas. Esta actividad fue frecuentemente liderada por las órdenes mendicantes, especialmente por los franciscanos. A través de este trabajo, pretendemos precisamente ilustrar esta actividad, analizando el caso concreto de una comunidad femenina que se estableció junto a la iglesia de Santiago del Burgo de Zamora y que posteriormente se convirtió en un convento de monjas dominicas a finales del siglo XV, el cual además debió de experimentar un proceso de transformación espacial acorde con su nueva situación. Fundamentalmente a través del libro de visitas de la parroquia adyacente, conocemos la conflictiva relación que se estableció entre el monasterio y dicha iglesia parroquial, la cual fue utilizada por las monjas para el desarrollo de sus funciones litúrgicas, sin que ellas llegaran a disponer nunca de la misma en titularidad. From beatas to Dominican nuns: the process of creation of the Monastery of Santa Catalina de Sena de Zamora at the end of XVth century
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