The Walled-In Woman in Medieval and Early Modern Spain

Cruz, Anne J.

doi:10.1163/9789401210232_020

Gender Matters 2014

DOI: 10.1163/9789401210232_020

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The Walled-In Woman in Medieval and Early Modern Spain

Anne J. Cruz¹

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“…For the translation of the term itself, I follow Anne J. Cruz (2014) and use the term 'walled-in.' Ryan Giles (2017) has opted for the elegant 'immured' as a translation for the term.…”

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“…I have substituted the rare Portuguese empardeada of the title for the much more used Spanish emparedada , just a metathesis away, when referring to the devotional tradition of the walled-in women. For the translation of the term itself, I follow Anne J. Cruz ( 2014 ) and use the term ‘walled-in.’ Ryan Giles ( 2017 ) has opted for the elegant ‘immured’ as a translation for the term. Recently, Cavero Domínguez ( 2020 ) has translated it as ‘walled-up.’…”

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“… 7 I am here indebted to the way in which Anne J. Cruz has pointed to ‘physical enclosure and social isolation’ ( 2014 , 356) as the defining characteristics of the emparedada . …”

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The voice inside the wall: A muyto devota oração da empardeada as a confession of enclosure

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In 1992, a secret library of eleven books was discovered in the wall of an old house in the small town of Barcarrota, near the border between the Spanish province of Badajoz and Portugal. Of all the books, I will focus on a small Portuguese prayer printed in the first half of the sixteenth century titled A muyto devota oraçã o da empardeada. Em lingoagem portugues [The very devoted prayer of the walled-in woman. In Portuguese language]. The emparedada of the title is a devoted woman who lives inside a wall. In the Iberian middle ages and early modern period, the emparedadas were women who opted to live enclosed in small chambers inside both city walls and the walls of churches, as a form of penance and reclusion. However, this penance is theorized by the emparedada herself as both a form of self-inflicted isolation-extricating the body from the commodification of sex and caretaking labor-as the embrace of a new kind of social agency. It is a social agency through which women inscribe their own bodies into public monuments while hiding them from plain sight, that is also a spiritual agency insofar as it enables them to beg pardon for their own souls and the souls of others. I argue that this is a confession that can only be articulated from behind walls and requires a certain form of self-enclosure to fulfill its actualizing and redeeming promise.

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“…For the translation of the term itself, I follow Anne J. Cruz (2014) and use the term 'walled-in.' Ryan Giles (2017) has opted for the elegant 'immured' as a translation for the term.…”

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Mulieres religiosae y su vinculación con los cenobios del Reino de Sevilla en la Baja Edad Media

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2022

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El propósito de nuestro trabajo es aproximarnos al estudio de algunos colectivos de mulieres religiosae, concretamente emparedadas, beatas, terceras y honestas y su relación con los miembros de distintas órdenes religiosas en el reino de Sevilla a fines de la Edad Media. En los últimos años ha aumentado el interés historiográfico y de investigación sobre estos grupos de mujeres, aunque casi siempre desde una perspectiva institucional. En este caso, nosotros queremos centrarnos en el establecimiento de una serie de vínculos con distintas comunidades monásticas y conventuales que permitieron a estas mujeres ir más allá de su concepción como personas enclaustradas. Conocer los detalles de las vidas de estas mujeres es posible gracias a los ricos fondos de protocolos notariales conservados en el Archivo Histórico Provincial de Sevilla y el Archivo Municipal de Jerez de la Frontera.

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