Gender and monastic autonomy in thirteenth-century Barcelona: abbess vs. bishop

McMillin, Linda A.

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“…In addition, the attention to detail was a fundamental component of the mechanisms of governance and control. In a period when the accounting profession was yet to be established in Portugal (Rodrigues et al, 2003, 2004, 2007), the recording of the economic transactions of the Monastery demonstrates the cleverness of the nuns and their access to unique educational opportunities, including bookkeeping education (Edwards, 2011; Roberts, 2013). From the analysis of the primary sources, it seems that religious women were also aware of the cost/opportunity of certain properties: whenever the Monastery had lands which were not leased for many years, it was a common choice to sell them, placing the money and earning interests (see ADB, Livro dos Caseiros e Pão Comprado , Cota 248; ADB, Livro de Receita e Despesa , Cota 69).…”

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Accounting in the organisation and life of a religious institution: The Monastery ofSanta Anain the eighteenth century

2022

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Set in the municipal archives of Braga, this article studies the accounting system and practices of the Monastery of Santa Ana, a female monastery located in a small town, Viana do Castelo, in the north of Portugal, during the eighteenth century. This work is a full-scale examination of the interlink between governance and accounting aspects of Benedictine organisations. It sheds light on the extent of management and administration that the female gender was able to exercise pertaining to a monastic order. The use of ‘displacement’ and ‘restraint’ concepts is pivotal to such exploration in the Monastery. The analysis of the accounting practices makes visible that large parts of its governance was embedded in social and internal accounting controls rather than the principal-agent type of relationship between the abbess, her auxiliaries and the monastery. Moreover, accounting practices help to appreciate the level of freedom of nuns that exceeded the actual freedom of a contemporary married woman.

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“…Our study of accounting and governance in the Monastery of Santa Ana, will consider if and how gender played a role in the governance (see also McMillin, 1992), and how 'restraint' and 'displacement' were represented in the accounting control system.…”

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Accounting in the organisation and life of a religious institution: The Monastery ofSanta Anain the eighteenth century

2022

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Conflicto jurisdiccional y competencia escrituraria entre la catedral de León y el monasterio de Sahagún: la elaboración de Becerros en el siglo XIII

Miguel

2016

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Este artículo analiza las implicaciones derivadas de la producción del Becerro de Presentaciones por parte del scriptorium de la catedral de León y del Becerro Segundo por parte del monasterio de Sahagún en el desarrollo de la etapa final de largo pleito sostenido entre ambas instituciones a causa de la delimitación de sus respectivas jurisdicciones. La producción de estos dos códices no sólo permite comprender la competencia escrituraria existente entre ambos centros como resultado de su controvertida relación sino que también nos informa del surgimiento de una nueva dinámica social en relación a la función asignada a la escritura durante el siglo XIII.

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Gender and monastic autonomy in thirteenth-century Barcelona: abbess vs. bishop

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Accounting in the organisation and life of a religious institution: The Monastery ofSanta Anain the eighteenth century

Accounting in the organisation and life of a religious institution: The Monastery ofSanta Anain the eighteenth century

Conflicto jurisdiccional y competencia escrituraria entre la catedral de León y el monasterio de Sahagún: la elaboración de Becerros en el siglo XIII

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