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Women and parish liturgy. Lay women's religion in the lordship of the Military ...
Torres Jiménez, RaquelThis paper analyses some aspects of the religious life of common secular women, neither religious nor wealthy ─a topic rarely addressed in historiography─, living in rural villages of the Calatrava lordship in Castile in the 15th and 16th centuries. Additionally, it studies the attitudes of the hierarchy of the Order of Calatrava towards certain practices in which they were involved. We have selected six points...
The patron saints and devotions of the Benedictine Military Orders (Portugal an...
Costa, Paula Pinto; Torres Jiménez, Raquel; Lencart, JoanaThis paper studies hagiographic devotion in the seigniories of the military orders: the Orders of Avis and Christ in Portugal and of Calatrava in Castile. Applying a common methodology and using similar sources for all three cases, this paper analyzes the written testimonies of the orders' devotion to Christ and the Virgin Mary, as well as their veneration of the saints. These records were compiled from the vis...