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
Summary
"This book looks at a largely overlooked category of devout laywomen called seroras and examines the ways women and their communities crafted surprisingly powerful religious positions for women outside of the confines of monasticism or marriage, right at the time when which we usually think of the Reformations as effectively limiting and tightly controlling female religious experimentation"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 21, 2020)
