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This article provides a vision of school disciplinary strategies as provided by childhood school memories of practicing or unemployed teachers. This narrative approach allows us to understand the school and its daily routines and rituals from an insiders' point of view, drawing upon the double perspective teachers employ when reflecting on their own experience as school children. The results of the study demonstrate a wide range of disciplinary practices coinciding with a Foucauldian disciplinary structure--a system of micro-penalty governing time, activity, behavior, speech, the body, and sexuality. Analyzing the systemic regulation of bodies in schools can uncover institutional meanings and make them available for questioning, perhaps even negotiation. Recognizing the ways in which teachers' roles are inextricably bound with the disciplinary power relations of their institutions can help alleviate frustration and burnout and help teachers make more informed pedagogical decisions. (Contains 1 note.)

The article focuses on several nuns' images from eighteenth-century New Spain set the stage for an examination of printed books and portraits of their cloistered owners. Topics include considered that the first, a likeness of Sor Inés Josepha del Corazón de Jesús by an unnamed artist is a standard example of New Spain's monjas coronadas or crowned nuns.

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Since its 1559 foundation in Madrid, the royal convent of the Descalzas Reales was a vital extension of the court, serving as a retreat for the women of the royal family, the royal children, and the king himself. Founded by Juana de Austria, sister of Philip II, the convent was later home to another of Philip's sisters, Empress María of Austria, who brought numerous features of the court to the convent, including a large entourage. When Empress María's daughter Margarita de la Cruz joined the convent, she took the vows of the Poor Clares and at her mother's death, maintained a smaller retinue of servants and attendants but continued the patronage and gift-giving networks typical of court life. Her example highlights the ability of Habsburg women to bring aspects of the court to the convent and the permeability of convent walls despite Tridentine reforms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The objectives were to make a description of the hospital and the works undertaken, exposing the conditions of the agreement between the city and religious and describe changes that occur during 1894. There has been a historical documentary study during the years 2014-2015 of the files deposited in the Municipal Archives of Trujillo. The Municipal Hospital in the city of Trujillo, was destined to service citizens, sick soldiers and bystanders. The Sisters Lovers of Jesus and Mary Immaculate performed treatment of patients since the year 1890. To assist the sisters would be hired a nurse and a nurse, paid by the city. During 1894 the City Council performed changes that produced the cessation of the assistance service of religious. The changes originated by the complaints of some patients and the high costs that the City Council had to pay for hospital maintenance. With the cessation, the religious began to study a new organization of the regime and the management of the institution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There are rising perceptions and concerns about social isolation and the prevalence of loneliness in Western societies and their negative impact on people’s psychological well-being. We report on an ethnographic study conducted in two Catholic contemplative monasteries in Spain, focusing on the nuns’ and monks' voluntary search for solitude. Through in-depth interviews we aimed to explore their conceptualisation and experiences of solitude, the motivations behind their spiritual quest for it, and the benefits and challenges that this choice entailed. An extraordinary human template of searching for solitude emerged: although they lived communally (they werenotalone), they actively avoided intimacy and closeness with other members of the community (they strove tofeelalone out of their own volition). Human solitude was seen as the necessary condition for achieving perfect closeness with God and was interpreted not as leading to isolation but as a channel to communicate more intimately with God. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This article discusses the monastic life and female religious orders in Spain and in New Spain during the 17th and 18th centuries, with a focus on the figures of Sor Esperanza la negra from Puebla, New Spain, and Sor Teresa la negrita from Salamanca, Spain. The author attempts a reconstruction of these biographies of these black nuns, both of whom were born in Africa.

This article discusses hagiography, the study of Christian saints and sainthood, in 17th century Spain. The author comments on the role of the Spanish nun Ana Francisca Abarca de Bolea in the reconstruction of the lives and acts of medieval saints who were members of the Cistercian order, with a particular focus on nuns. She analyzes the concept of feminism in the religious orders of the medieval period and its influence on the sainthood of nuns and other female religious figures of the time period.

Ever since antiquity until the present, the concept of woman has been based on the duality of Mary and Eve. The intention of the present work is to study a third option to complete this preexisting duality of womanhood. More precisely, the objective of this work is to analyze how the characters of the single woman, the nun and the prostitute in León de Manuel Mantero's novel Estiércol [Manure] constitute an empty idea of the feminine which, consequently, will allow us to have a more clear perception of the social reality during Spain's post civil war era. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The canon Francisco de Velasco was dismissed by Chapter and Archbishop of Santiago in 1578 for his proven malpractice in performing his job as Kapellmeister. Velasco's appeal and subsequent litigation have allowed us to access to several testimonies about the love life of the canon and children had with several nuns. His expulsion from the Chapter proves a mentality change regarding sexual behavior of clergy, coinciding with reformist attitude of archbishop Francisco Blanco in the archdiocese of Santiago de Compostela. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on sickness and health care of the nuns of the Convento de Santa Clara de Borja, the Poor Clares convent in Borja, Zaragosa, Spain. The research dates from the foundation of the convent in 1603 through the mid-20th century, and centers on the religious, social and physical ramifications of sickness entering the cloister. The author discusses the economic logistics of keeping an adequate infirmary in the convent as well as the written works that surfaced from the convent as a result of illness. The nuns' attitudes toward health and sickness are explored, specifically their belief that a nun should value her health, but not despair when she becomes ill.

Languages define cultures, and languages are defined by the way in which they are written down. Christian, Jewish and Muslim speakers of Spanish, in its early Castilian form, only began to develop their own written code in the final decades of the twelfth century. Their efforts did not follow the organic, evolutionary model that may be applied to oral linguistic change. Instead, they were shaped by individual institutional initiatives responding to specific social conditions. Monks belonging to the new twelfth-century orders imported from Languedoc the idea of producing an exclusively Romance code for legal documents in Spain. It was soon taken over and developed by other groups in the hybrid society of medieval Castile. Professional Jewish scribes appear to be amongst the earliest to join the trend and contribute to its success. The lack of continuity of Spanish Jewish institutions after the expulsion of 1492 has resulted in the destruction of much of the evidence, but there are enough documents, such as the ones studied here, to testify to their decisive contribution to the "invention" of written Spanish. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article not only reveals unknown trades practiced by the nun Maria Gertrudis de Ia Cruz Hore in the convent of Santa Maria del Arrabal at the end of the eighteenth century (companion of nuns during medical visits, sacristan, administrator, turner) but, once more, it questions the curious and late cloistering of this lady of Cadiz high society. She was thirty seven years old and the only professed nun in this convent who was still married. Some of the aforementioned trades, especially the ones of administrator and turner, allow us to speculate about her strange decision to take the veil after sixteen years of marriage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the study of the nuns' monastery of the Conceptionist order in Cadiz, Spain, at the beginning of the 18th century. Nuns attending the monastery included daughters, nieces and cousins of lawyers, high-ranking clergymen and other members of elite Spanish society. The socio-cultural aspects of the female order of the Conception in Cadiz, whose goal was to spread Christian spirituality in New Spain, is discussed. Particular focus is given to the political and social strategies of the factions linked to the Conception.

Se presenta extractos de la autobiografía de la monja y soldado española Catalina de Erauso. El libro, publicado en 1829, describe su vida después de huirse de su convento, su carrera como soldado en Sudamérica y las desventuras de su viaje entre Pamplona y Roma. El artículo también menciona en el apoyo que recibió del gobernador de Bayona y el reconocimiento del rey Felipe IV de España.

This article examines the ways in which Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz's rhetorical selfrepresentations, especially in her portrait poems, coincide with and challenge two visual representations of her that accompanied volumes of her work published in Spain. Because of her unique subjectivity as a nun from colonial Mexico, who is also a prominent figure in the canon of Spanish Golden Age literature, Sor Juana has become an icon of both Hispanic and female authorship. The consideration of both the metaphorical and the visual personae of Sor Juana offers distinct approaches to the complicated issue of self-fashioning in the early modern Hispanic context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract: This paper examines an attempt to introduce a male administrator at a Benedictine women''s monastery in Catalonia in the fourteenth century. It argues that records from the monastic and episcopal archives indicate the existence of a complex and dynamic interplay between the nuns and their abbess and the bishop. Due to this complicated process of negotiation, the bishop did not succeed in imposing a new male authority figure over the traditional leadership of the community. Over the next fifty years, the abbesses reasserted themselves and redefined the procurator''s role as one subordinate to themselves. The episode illustrates that nuns could employ varied tactics to resist attempts to change their traditional administrative structure. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Discusses convents as homes in Spain. Complexities and restrictions of convent life in 17th century; Impact of singing chant and attendant rituals on the lives of nuns; References to nuns who were outstanding musicians and poets and whose works have received enthusiastic attention.

Features Ende, a woman artist and servant of God in Gerona, Spain, in A.D. 978. Range of artworks; Description of Ende's artwork; Contributions to the field of women's studies in art.