The Basque seroras : local religion, gender, and power in northern Iberia, 1550-1800 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Scott, Amanda L. (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2020.
Subjects:	Catholic Church > Spain > País Vasco > History > Modern period, 1500- Women in the Catholic Church > Spain > País Vasco > History. Catholic women > Religious life > Spain > País Vasco > History. Laity > Catholic Church > History. Since 1500 Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

The Basque seroras and lay female religious life in the early modern world
"Her duty and obligation" : selecting and employing a serora
Local religion and Tridentine reform in the early modern Basque country
"Nothing more certain than death" : seroras and their communities through their testaments
The virgin, the witch, and the widow : suspicion and transgression in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
Conflict and community in the seventeenth century
From seroras to sacristans : reforms in the eighteenth century.