The Basque seroras : local religion, gender, and power in northern Iberia, 1550-1800 / Amanda L. Scott.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scott, Amanda L., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Catholic Church--Spain--País Vasco--History--Modern period, 1500-.

Catholic Church.

Women in the Catholic Church--Spain--País Vasco--History.

Women in the Catholic Church.

Catholic women--Religious life--Spain--País Vasco--History.

Catholic women.

Laity--Catholic Church--History.

Laity.

Catholic women--Religious life.

Laity--Catholic Church.

History.

Spain--País Vasco.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiii, 230 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2020.

Summary:

"This book looks at a largely overlooked category of devout laywomen called seroras and examines the ways women and their communities crafted surprisingly powerful religious positions for women outside of the confines of monasticism or marriage, right at the time when which we usually think of the Reformations as effectively limiting and tightly controlling female religious experimentation"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The Basque seroras and lay female religious life in the early modern world

"Her duty and obligation" : selecting and employing a serora

Local religion and Tridentine reform in the early modern Basque country

"Nothing more certain than death" : seroras and their communities through their testaments

The virgin, the witch, and the widow : suspicion and transgression in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries

Conflict and community in the seventeenth century

From seroras to sacristans : reforms in the eighteenth century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Scott, Amanda L. The Basque seroras.

ISBN:

9781501747496

1501747495

OCLC:

1104856813