Female sins and private life: discourses about concience and quotidian life in Modern Age in Spain (XVIth-XVIIIth)
Keywords:
Penitential literature, sin, conscience, quotidian life, moral casuistry.
Abstract
After the Council of Trent (1545-1563) flourished a kind of penitential literature which contains manuals for confessors, handbooks, instruction books. Their origin dates back to the Middle Age. This resource neglected for a long time, at day, becomes a basic tool for understanding the different perception of female morality throughout the Modern Age in Spain. The analysis of these discourses allows us to reconstruct the social control of women and the imposition of rules over them. The standards will be inflicted repeatedly so it is necessary to research the relationship between the coercion of speeches and the transgressions of quotidian life.Downloads
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2014-07-09
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Ruiz Ortiz M. (2014). Female sins and private life: discourses about concience and quotidian life in Modern Age in Spain (XVIth-XVIIIth). Cuadernos de Historia Moderna, 39, 59-76. https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_CHMO.2014.v39.45841
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