Nobility Power and Female Monasticism at the Beginning of Modern Age (Córdoba, 1495-1550)

Abstract

On the basis of the analytical value of female monasticism as an indicator of political change, this article focuses on one of its most notorious aspects at the beginning of the Early Modern Age: the intensification of the link with the nobility and the female subordination throught the dominant imposition of endowments. This approach applies to a particular geohistoric scope, the bishopric of Córdoba (Andalusia) between the imposition of the religious reforms by the Catholic Kings (1495) and the dawn of Trento (1550). The analysis of the board council from a legal point of view and its Cordovan application, is completed with a description of the new political context based on the coordination of the different systems of power, civil and ecclesiastical.