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):

Laity--Catholic Church--History.

Laity.

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

Catholic women.

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

Women in the Catholic Church.

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

Catholic Church.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (247 pages)

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2020

Place of Publication:

Ithaca [New York] : 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.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781501747519

1501747517

OCLC:

1104854016