Nuns as ‘Sponsae Christi’
The Legal Status of the Medieval Oblates of Tor de’ Specchi
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10080393 |
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| Authors | Maya Maskarinec (University of Southern California, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 72 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 280-299 |
| Publication date | 2020-11-17 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Ecclesiastical History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-0469 • E-ISSN: 1469-7637 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0022046920001475 |
| OpenAlex | W3103408329 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
This article examines the unusual history and legal status of the Tor de’ Specchi community, founded by Francesca Romana (d. 1440) in Rome, in the face of shifting expectations for religious women in Counter-Reformation Catholicism. It is argued that Francesca Romana had sought to carve out a religious path for women distinct from that of nuns as brides of Christ (‘sponsae Christi’). The article demonstrates the community's difficulties in maintaining this way of life in the face of Pope Pius V's 1566 bull Circa Pastoralis , which extended the Council of Trent's 1563 decrees on enclosure ( clausura ) to all nuns of every order
Ancient history · Face (sociological concept · Legal status · Order (exchange · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Classics · Early Modern Women Writers · History · Law · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity
| Highly cited | No |
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