From the cloister to the city: the Capuchin nuns between Italy and Spain (16th-19th centuries)

Publisher: FedOA - Federico II University Press 

Series: Clio. Essays in History, Archaeology and Art History

Pages: 399

Language: Italian

Abstract: The essays collected in the volume try to shed light on the Capuchin monasteries that followed the project that had led Maria Lorenza Longo to the foundation, in Naples, in 1535, of the monastery of Santa Maria in Gerusalemme. The book retraces the history of their main settlements between Italy and Spain in the first centuries of the modern age, following some of the main plots - relationships with the city elites, royal patronage in the case of the communities of Barcelona and Madrid, religious life, cultural heritage material and immaterial, arts and devotions. These communities show a clear plurality of situations from a legal, devotional and economic-social point of view. But the confluences in terms of operational choices, the interconnections and mutual influences that held together the first Capuchin monasteries that arose between Italy and Spain between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were also evident, especially in terms of assistance and care provided to the chronically ill, the reception of women in various ways considered 'at risk', the choices concerning religious styles and behaviours.