The ladies of Zamora
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The ladies of Zamora
Manchester University Press, 1997
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Bibliography: p. 177-186
Includes index
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Description
"The ladies of Zamora" is the story of a convent of nuns in a thirteenth-century Spanish city, their battles with the bishop, the altogether friendlier relationship with the local Dominican friars and the consequences further afield of their activities. Based on unpublished records of the enquiry into the affair, it brings into sharp focus a number of usually unrelated aspects of the age: the tensions between the mendicant orders and the local ecclesiastical authorities: thirteenth-century religiosity, female religiosity in particular and collusion in high places; both in Castile and at the papal curia. Beyond the tale it tells of nuns observed in flagrante at the convent gate, cornered by tumescent friars in the convent infirmary and oven, giving their prioress the evil eye and threatening their bishop with stout sticks, this account lays bare the realities of life within and beyond the cloister in the later years of the century of Christian Spain's greatest achievements at the expense of Spanish Islam. Not since Montaillou have the exploits of a single medieval community been laid bare in this way.
Table of Contents
- Friars and society in 13th century Zamora - the ladies and their establishment
- a bishop calls - the enquiry of 1279
- the aftermath of the scandal - the "prudent virgins" vindicated
- international ramifications - the downfall of Munio of Zamora
- simony and forgery - a royal marriage and the Pope's suspicions
- mendicant ladies and Castilian society at the end of the 13th century
- the enquiry of 1279 and related documents.
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