Problemas e bases para o estudo de mulheres freiras em ilhas

Abstract

The historiography of cloistered nuns in islands interests to several types of studies: religious history, gender, institutional, biographical, cultural, social, economic, comparative, of islands. This text was expressly prepared to serve as a guide in the midst of all this richness and diversity; it consists, sequentially, of a synthesis of the most up-to-date knowledge about female cloistered monasteries, a set of corrections to prejudices regarding the realities of “nuns” and “islands”, the evolution of sub-themes in the history of female monasticism in Portugal in the last 50 years. It aims at drawing attention to the potential of numerous archival sources, the peculiarities of island life and the characteristics of the insular female enclosure, along with several proposals for innovative investigations.

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